I’m in Lemmy.world, but I’ve seen there are others. Do I have to switch in between them (if so, how?) or is it fine the way I have it?
Thanks a lot.
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It doesn’t matter as long as:
- Your instance isn’t defederated from too many big instances. (LW is defederated from beehaw.org so I have alternative accounts to view posts from there).
- Your instance doesn’t have a specific topic that you aren’t interested in. (LW is a general-topic instance so that’s all good).
- Your instance has good uptime. (LW often has issues with huge masses of users migrating over from Reddit).
It’s still a very good instance. If you want to switch over to a different instance, check out Awesome-Lemmy-Instances on Github.
hey you’re the guy who didn’t shit, how did that go!
Kinda pointless comment from me since its over , but I’d do it regardless. The solution is just to fast. 3 day fasts are surprisingly simple to do and makes you easily not poop.
There’s also some feature differences between instances. Some instances disable downvotes, don’t allow creating communities, or have stricter rules about communities that are allowed.
I chose my current instance because I wanted downvotes (I see them as critical for quality control) and also wanted to be federated with beehaw.
As an aside, LW made massive performance improvements the other day. They seem to be in a good position to keep growing, currently. There’s certainly some benefits to being on the biggest instance, because of how the /all feed works. It’s not actually all. It’s “all communities someone on my instance subscribes to”, so the bigger your instance, the more correct /all is.
As of now, it does matter. I’m on kbin.social, but atm I can’t see most content and comments from lemmy instances. Something is not federating correctly.
Yeah, lemmy and kbin have had issues syncing up for me and posts I made on a kbin instance not showing up despite waiting days.
So until that gets resolved or if, it’s best to have a lemmy and kbin account.
It does not, right now I can see posts from other instances (like this one), without leaving mine (discuss.tchncs.de). You might actually get a better experience on smaler instances, as the big three (lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, bbeehaw.org) can get quite slow at times.
I can see other instances but somehow I can’t subscribe or comment to a community from another instance beside .world? Idk.
yes, you can! you just have to search for “all” instead of “local” under Communities!
thats weird you should be able to unless defederated
Why are there multiple Lemmy websites lol. So confusing.
Because Lemmy isn’t a website. It’s software that runs social content aggregation sites.
It’s like what WordPress is for blogs and other unidirectional content serving websites.
The fun thing is, though, that any website running Lemmy can share content posted to it with any other website running Lemmy.
It’s only confusing because corporate social media has taught us that “service = place”.
Same reason there are multiple phone companies. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Google Fi, Cricket Wireless, Mint Mobile, etc.
They all allow you to communicate with your friends no matter what provider they use. But the companies are all slightly different. You might choose one due to better coverage, or customer support, or corporate ethics, or simply cause a friend recommended it.
Phones are redundant. So if Verizon fails, you can always sign up for another provider and still talk to your friends. Or if you have a bad experience, you’re not stuck using something you hate.
Plus, if one company ruled all of phones, it would be a bad thing. Monopolies aren’t good.
Lemmy isn’t the only thing out there with ‘multiple websites’ online. Email - there is more than just gmail, outlook, yahoo, proton, etc.
It’s not confusing to you that there are multiple email companies, that all work together, right? You don’t need a gmail account to send a message to a gmail user.
So don’t think it Lemmy like a website owned by one company. It’s not. Just like nobody owns “email”. Think of it like a protocol.
But I get it. Lemmy is an emerging technology. People are expecting it to be new Reddit. And it is on the front end. But it’s closer to new email.
Because that’s the whole point of being decentralised. Nobody gets everything.
If there was just one “Lemmy”, we’d be back to another monolithic Reddit again.
That’s the basis of the whole system, they use the same protocol to communicate(activity pub) and share content.
It allows anyone to run their own version of reddit and they can decide which other servers they want to have content from
