They are federated instances. Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, which means distributed servers running the same service (or services) and registering in one instance gives you access to information on the other servers running Lemmy. You can have different communities (‘subreddits’) in different servers but they are all accessible and joinable. This way is not a centralised system.
The Fediverse is not just Lemmy, can be other services like Mastodon, etc.
And the servers all* communicate with each other, so you can see content from one server while logged into another (the URL format would just be slightly different.)
Well, except for the cases where a server admin decides to defederate from another server for one reason or another.
No, federation means we all see the same content regardless of which site we sign up on with the exception of sites that yours may block.
But be wary that lemmy.ml is a tankie instance and the “.ml” stands for Marxism-Leninism. I generally avoid lemmy.ml communities so I don’t get banned for saying “the uyghur genocide is a real thing” or anything.
No worries, .ml is in fact the official domain of the state of Mali. It’s just the interpretation of this single domain owner what he wants to stand “ml” for.
The large instances usually subscribe to most of the others but not every instance is equal. You should go to other instances (you don’t have to join) and check their “all” feeds. You’ll definitely see differences.
There are just certain instances that I wouldn’t want to see, like foreign language ones?
New to the fediverse, so perhaps I’m not thinking about this correctly, but if could blacklist a whole instance, rather than certain magazines/subs/whatever they are called, it would be easier than playing a game of wack-a-mole.
I’m currently using Thunder (it is open source, github.com/hjiangsu/thunder) and it’s pretty nice. I tried Jerboa before but I kept getting way too many request errors (probably because I was using with the lemmy.world instance tho)
You mean Thunder? I think you are having some weird bug, because I’m logged there and have an account on lemmy.world. Jerboa recently was having problems with lemmy.world because of the server’s version, but that has already been sorted it out.
I’m on lemmy.world and could only get into it on my PC for a couple of days, I had to use lemm.ee on my device but I just kept trying and eventually I got in.
I’m on lemmy.world and could only get into it on my PC for a couple of days, I had to use lemm.ee on my device but I just kept trying and eventually I got in.
300 tweets is nothing, so essentially new users are limited to very casual reading.
Don't forget, that just clicking/tapping on a tweet opens the discussions about that tweet which in turn are each separate tweets. So opening a single, controversial tweet you actually want to read, might easily result in 20 read tweets as far as the API is concerned.
Since Lemmy is not a single entity but a group of people hosting the servers, there is not official app.
Your question is similar to “There is no official email app?”.
There are hosts like Outlook and Gmail. Similarly, Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world would be the equivalent. While outlook and Gmail have their own apps, individual instances rely on third party apps like Jerboa, Liftoff, etc. for mobile users.
One of the biggest bullshit I have seen here in India is that airlines themselves will charge convenience fees for booking from their own website. Like it is not a third party website. It is their Fucking own website.
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