Asklemmy

44153 readers

1296 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

I really want to make sure I get this right (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I’m really bought in to the Lemmy experience and I want others to share similar interests. However, I know they will have a massive amount of questions, and I want to be able to answer them in addition to my own curiosities. Here are a few questions that I have that I am still fuzzy on.

I created an account on lemm.ee. Is lemm.ee a separate instance?
When subscribing, are you subscribing to separate instances or different communities within a particular instance?
What is the difference between lemm.ee and lemmy.ml?
Is there any reason to make new accounts on different instances?
When I’m looking at the “Local” feed, what am I looking at?
What is the difference between the “Local” feed and the “All” feed?

Any additional information on these questions would be massively appreciated.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The other commenter is correct but to add to number 3: there is not much difference to them now, but a lot of instances usually have a particular "flavor" to them. Like one might be more geared towards people who are interested I'm programming, others are leftist instances, others are geared towards furries, or music interests.. but that's very broad and you don't HAVE to choose an instance based on that. A lot of new instances have cropped up that are just "catch all" instances for the surge of reddit users. Look at the sidebar descriptions to see if there are any specifics to the instance and see what you vibe with.

In terms of functionality they work exactly the same