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@goldenquetzal I wish the browser experience was as good as Voyager's. @Blaze

Instead of 1 big website like reddit, there's a bunch of smaller websites like reddit. These sites are united in a way as users from one site can view, comment on, etc on other sites.

Something similar is Email. Even if you made your email address with Google to have @gmail.com at the end of your email address you can still send and receive emails from anyone.

Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

It's pretty close to Reddit, but it's like a whole bunch of smaller Reddits that share posts between each other. The individual Reddits (instances) are generally grouped by hobby, political affiliation, or geographical location, but not always.

You can tell what instance something or someone is from by looking at their name or title. E.g. I'm from lemmy.zip, you can see it after my user name.

The reason that it can't be bought by a billionaire is that even if one instance is bought out, compromised etc, it can just be removed from the group at large, and it continues like nothing happened. I'm simplifying a bit but I hope you get the general idea.

Feel free to, but also be ready to see your post removed anc your account banned

Some Instances Allows Tor:

Basically every instance except lemmy.world allows Tor

My oldest Reddit account was just one year shy of being able to vote (just rolled over to 17) and it stung a little to hit that delete button yesterday. Lemmy very much reminds me of the days when I joined. However, users here frequently point out not having any niche subs on Lemmy - that was exactly what we had to contend with on Reddit. Except making a sub became competitive and you had a lot of speculative sub creation etc. It was exciting because it was new, but that isn’t the case now. The attitude I see missing on Lemmy then is this desire to create communities, and instead lament they don’t exist. Be the change you want to see everyone.

Certain instances do, you can switch to them if you like

A instance or two can be bought yes, but many if the popular subs are distributed all over.

And if enshitification hits the biggest instances it will bleed users because it's so easy to switch instances

If all the content is on Lemmy.world

Another reason to spread the content across instances

people are going to be hesitant to move somewhere else

It is however much easier to move between fediverse instances than it is to move from commercial social media to the fediverse. Once you're on the fediverse, moving is easier.