I’m new to Lemmy from Reddit and I’m very confused about like Lemmy.world lemmy.ml. I understand subreddits the equivalent of what that is. But what do these .whatever’s change?
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.
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.dbzer0.com no longer exist in some sort of tolerated limbo, unlike on Reddit where they could be shut down at a moment’s notice.
I’m new to Lemmy from Reddit and I’m very confused about like Lemmy.world lemmy.ml. I understand subreddits the equivalent of what that is. But what do these .whatever’s change?
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.
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 act like reddit does.
But those reddits connect to each other and you have access to the content and communities of the other instances.
All those instances have several communities which are like subs
Think of it like email (lists). There can be a !fuckcars@lemmy.world and a !fuckcars@lemmy.ml (the latter doesn’t exist, but it could)
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.dbzer0.com no longer exist in some sort of tolerated limbo, unlike on Reddit where they could be shut down at a moment’s notice.
Oh that’s kinda neat. Do you have any suggestions for which you prefer or which most people like?
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. For cats, check out these three
Only the last one is what I’d deem active.
It’s like Gmail and Outlook/Hotmail, different servers run by different people but you can talk across them
Have we officially reached the point where mainstream internet users don’t know how URLs work?
Just new to a website that I don’t know the logistics