originalucifer , 5 months ago

Are the upvotes and downvotes I make, private?

no

If I report a comment, is my report private?

yes

Can someone follow me across lemmy instances based on my username?

yes

If I want to make a community, is there a reason I would choose one lemmy over another?

no

Are the powers of moderators similar to reddit's?

somewhat, lemmy is still kind of new. mod abilities are being expanded.

Where can I find a list of most active lemmy instances?

https://fedidb.org/

Any other differences from reddit I should know about?

lemmy cannot use the 'microblog' part of the fediverse (tweeting, communicating to Mastodon)

i use mbin for this reason. it can do both. https://moist.catsweat.com