Comment on A little rant about lemmy.ml

Nipplecreek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Pancito@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  An instance is more like an own reddit and not a sub. Lemmy.world is a reddit. Lemmy.ml is a reddit Feddit.de is a reddit

  Each of them acts like reddit does.

  But those reddits connect to each other and you have access to the content and communities of the other instances.

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• Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s like Gmail and Outlook/Hotmail, different servers run by different people but you can talk across them

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• yetAnotherUser@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Think of it like email (lists). There can be a !fuckcars@lemmy.world and a !fuckcars@lemmy.ml

  You can access both communities, subscribe to both and post to both. Their content is (mostly) identical, the only difference is who’s hosting it.

  There is no central authority determining the rules. For instance, Reddit can ban whatever they like and allow whatever they like. That’s not how it works here. The only rules are what each community decides are their own rules. Certain communities, such as !piracy@lemmy.dbzero.com no longer exist in some sort of tolerated limbo, unlike on Reddit where they could be shut down at a moment’s notice.

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  • Nipplecreek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh that’s kinda neat. Do you have any suggestions for which you prefer?

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    • yetAnotherUser@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, since !fuckcars@lemmy.ml doesn’t exist, I prefer the one that does.

      Usually, if there are multiple communities one is significantly more active than the others. Not for cats though. There is:

      • !cats@lemmy.ml
      • !cats@lemmy.world
      • !cats@sh.itjust.works

      You cannot have enough cats.

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• noride@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They are individual copies of the Lemmyverse that all sync content with each other. That’s the ‘federation’ part. Some of them are weird and scary places, friend.

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• pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Have we officially reached the point where mainstream internet users don’t know how URLs work?

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  • Nipplecreek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just new to a website that I don’t know the logistics

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