I'm here from Reddit. They banned me for absolutely no reason. That's frustrating. How works Lemmy ?
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Something I haven't seen people talk about is the nature of the fediverse in terms of the philosophy of separate instances.
There are a lot of "general" instances that are kind of like mini-reddits. Lots of users sign up from all over, communities for a wide variety of interests. But there are also instances with a specific focus.
For example, I'm a member of midwest.social so when I look at the "local" feed, I only get communities relating to the US midwest. But of course, I can still subscribe and interact with other communities on federated insances.
Think of it like email. You can sign up for the big general purpose emails (google, outlook, icloud, etc). But you might want something different, perhaps privacy focused like Proton or Tuta. Or you can have an "instance" for your work where everyone gets an @company.com email. Or maybe you just want to spin up your own email with a vanity domain.
No matter which email server you use, you can still communicate with people on separate servers.
You don't have to stick with the first account you create. In fact, I'd recommend that you try a few instances before you settle on one.
Beyond separate instances, there are also alternatives to Lemmy that are very similar but do some things differently. Mbin, Kbin, and Piefed are examples. And again, thanks to federation standards and everything being built to be compatible, you can subscribe to a Lemmy community from Mbin and vice versa.