New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions.

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fididosooe@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

Reddit is starting to suck more and more everyday so here I am. Some questions -

I created my lemmy account at lemmy.ca, but most people i have seen have lemmy.world accounts. Am I missing out on anything by not having a lemmy.world account?
Reddit has a offical subreddit for Reddit news, Are there any offical communities for Lemmy?
You can’t post on some subreddits on Reddit if you do not have enough karma or if your account is not old enough. Are there any such rules like that on Lemmy?

Thank you!

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hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Btw: It's good you signed up with a smaller instance. Ideally we want the users to spread across instances. So for example lemmy.world doesn't gain too much power (which it already has). So signing up on a different instance is a good thing for the Fediverse.

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- Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If LW admins really care about the fediverse, they probably should close their registrations for the time being, otherwise every newbie will start joining LW because it is the biggest instance out there.
  
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  - hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    On the flipside, that also scares people away. They want to take part and immediately hit a barrier. The place where everyone mingles is closed off. They have to learn why that is and how the Fediverse is supposed to work, find some instance overview list and make a choice. Be angry for a short while until they understand the concept and realize it's for the better... I think that'd be detrimental to the cause. I rather live with the issues that come with big instances than with a complicate onboarding process. But I think people already complained about onboarding on the Fediverse in general. I think we need to solve that issue first and then we can go ahead and also add some mechanism to steer people towards a more even distribution. But I don't see anyone working on any of that in Lemmy.
    
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kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No, you’re not missing out on anything. You can have multiple accounts if you wish, you can have one. Short of an instance going down that you have your account on, you can interact with it all.

Official as in a centralized server with all the “main” stuff? No. Each server might have its own News community.

There isn’t yet, but with the way Lemmy mods are going, it won’t be long. Starting to get some whiffs of mods banning people because they’ve voted wrongly on posts. Lemmy is unique in that it lets mods see what you’ve up/down voted.
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- fididosooe@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  block furry porn?
  
  Never. I joined lemmy specifically for the furry porn 🥵 jk
  
  Thanks for the help!
  
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  - bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s important to remember that if the admins of your server defederate (disconnect, not sync) with a given server, you will not have access to that I stance’s posts. This is where multiple accounts can come in handy.
    
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- FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  In reaponse to your #3 point - this is absolute fucking ridiculous. This type of bullshit will kill Lemmy.
  
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  - bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah so much for diverse opinions
    
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- Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  With #3, someone correct me if I am wrong, but I don’t believe your run-of-the-mill moderator can see upvotes and downvotes. But instance admins can, just by nature of having access to the server data. Federation wouldn’t work if other instances couldn’t communicate upvotes and downvotes across the platform to other instances, so short of finding some way to encrypt all the data, it’s an unavoidable consequence of the standard.
  
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Fosheze@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Welcome to Lemmy. I see most people answered your questions but just so you’re aware, the only reason world has as many users as it does is because it was basically the only instance that didn’t close it’s signups durring the first reddit exodus and that also had enough resources to handle the massive influx of users without completely breaking. Most people didn’t pick world for any reason other than it was the only instance they could sign up for at the time. Joining any other instance is better because a more diverse fediverse is a healthier fediverse.

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- TehBamski@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The reason I started an account on Lemmy.World vs sh.itjust.works, is because there was no way I was gonna tell my parents/friends/others that I saw something on ‘shit just works.’
  
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  - TheRedSpade@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You could just say that you saw something on Lemmy regardless of the instance.
    
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Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No. That’s the beauty of federation. Lemmy is not centralized like Reddit. You don’t need to be on lemmy.world to see things from other instances like lemm.ee, lemmy.ml, ani.social, etc.

Since Lemmy is not centralized, there’s no “official” community (subreddit equivalent) here. Your instance might have a meta instance community though.

There’s nothing like that here, at least not builtin. You can easily code up some bot to implement it though. !asklemmy@lemmy.world had a bot do that once when the fediverse was being spammed by some group.
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HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Good info here !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

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bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For the most part, you don’t miss anything. The only exception would be if there is a server that has defederated (basically disconnected) from your instance. I’d say you made a good choice with .ca since it has very few big important instances that are defederated from it.

There are some communities on lemmy.ml that specifically are there for interacting with the devs. !lemmy@lemmy.ml is the main place for questions about using lemmy. Whatever client you’re using should also have its own community for questions about the client itself. Generally you shouldn’t ask those sorts of questions on asklemmy communities.

Global karma isn’t a thing in the lemmyverse. It’s not impossible to calculate it (by adding up the karma of each post and comment on an account), but it’s not a primary statistic tracked by the software itself.
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TehBamski@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Welcome to Lemmy. I hope you enjoy your stay.

Many others have answered your three questions. So I’m gonna help get you started.

Check out: lemmyverse.net/communities

to help you find communities you would like to add to your feed. This can even be useful for blocking communities you’re not interested in or want to see in your ‘Local’ or ‘All’ filter options.

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