Yeah I actually tried beehaw initially but they never dealt with my application, so after a whole I just went with Lemmy.world.
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Eiri@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoI heard what lemmy is. I googled Lemmy. I downloaded an app. I pressed sign up. I ended up on Lemmy.world.
I’ll be honest I don’t even really understand what different instances do.
butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
an instance can be thought of like a reigonal server for a game, but for a community interest instead. dbzer0 is more on the fringes partaking more actively in piracy and AI shit, as well as other shit like anarchy and personal liberty/freedoms at a more broad scale.
Sometimes they’re regionally specific, like the midwest instance, other times they’re global like the .world instance.
you do have instance specific communities, and users obviously, but it’s also open to the broader “fediverse” as well. The only technicality is that i’m tied to dbzer0 since that’s where my acc sits, though i can still poke around outside of it.
pseudo@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
They can be oriented to some type of content: For example, the many feddit.something are targetting people by countries or langages (.it, .uk, etc.). slrpnk.net is solarpunk oriented, mander.xyz science oriented. Litterature.cafe is books, reading and writing oriented.
And they can offer different moderation policies: People on lemmynsfw.com probably want to see NSFW content. lemmy.world has a policy against it. lemmy.dbzer0.com allow for open discussion about piracy that many instances forbid and so on.
It you don’t see the difference in instances, it is probably that you are about fine on your local instance. But if one day, you hear about a community you can’t access, maybe that is because it is blocked by lemmy.word and you could access it from another instance
Scrollone@feddit.it 5 weeks ago
If the dbzer0 instance allows piracy talk but I’m signed up to an instance that doesn’t allow it, can I talk in their community or do I risk being banned from mine?
In other words, are my comments stored on their instance or on mine?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Lemmy stores your posts and replies on both your host server and on the server of the community.
One interesting behavior to note here that is different from reddit is that while comments on reddit belong to the profile of the person commenting and is then imported to view in the subreddit (this is why you can edit comments after being banned, and why there visible in your profile even if removed from a subreddit), on lemmy the target community is instead authoritative and your host server will by default respect a deletion by community mods on different servers by also removing that comment from your profile.
pseudo@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
Very interesting indeed. Thank you for letting us know.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Your comments are stored on both. The “canonical” version would be on your home instance but every instance that is federated with your instance would get a copy of your comments. I think it’s even possible to have your content removed from one instance but not another. One of my posts shows as removed in the mod log but isn’t actually removed.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
So by default your instance respect mod removals.
You can change that as a server admin, so comments would remain visible to other users on your instance.
I think your instance is authoritative for content of comments, but the community hosting instance is authoritative for which comments are approved (other instances respect such removals by default)
pseudo@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
That’s weird. @Natanael@slrpnk.net says the opposite is it a question of version?
pseudo@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
You can talk on their instance. If the moderator of your instance dis not wanted you to interact with this other instance they would have block it.
That I’m not sure. But I think there is a copy of the content you accessed on your instance. Maybe someone administrating an instance could answer you better than I did.
VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
I signed up at feddit.nl and I am not even from Netherlands.
pseudo@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
If you find yourself well were you are, then you are in the right place (^_^)
madjo@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Which feels a bit as a sleepy instance, but maybe I’m not in the right communities.
Eiri@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So which instance an account is from matters regarding which communities you can join? Huh.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Only insofar as some instances block communication from some other instances. Not mine though, that’s actually one of the reasons I picked it. That and it being by an org that’s older than the web and runs a public unix server and a bunch of retrocomputing type services as well as fediverse stuff. They started out as a dialup anime BBS.
pseudo@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
Yes but not so much. The fediverse is a big place and everyone can open a community in the same topic in a instance that is not block. Look how many zero waste there is !zerowaste@lemmy.ml !zerowaste@slrpnk.net !zerowaste@lemm.ee !zerowaste@lemmy.world !zero_dechet@jlai.lu. And they may be more on instances I don’t know.
For what I have witness instances blocked each other over divergence on political activism. If you don’t plan to go discuss with people who really want to convince you to become communiste, you should be fine.
Go on [your.instance]/instances for the list of block instances.