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

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

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

On reddit, you have reddit.com -> subreddits. on lemmy you have [all lemmys, including this one] -> the lemmy i have an account on -> communities.

Similar to how you can post on any subreddit if you have a reddit account, you can post on any lemmy community if you have an account on any lemmy server.

Think of it like old-school pre-reddit internet forums, if all of those forums were linked together, and as a whole they became a reddit-like thing.

This gives you an extra moderation step. Server/instance admins can ban an entire problematic server/instance, and you can have stricter or more lax rules depending on the server.

It’s a hybrid between old-school forums and modern reddit. lots of smaller, specialized or localized communities, which together as a whole become a reddit-like world. it’s the best of both worlds.