Hello all on new lemmy instance

  • Virtualsky@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Hello and thank you! To help me have a better understanding (and to evangelize with a bit of wisdom) in a short paragraph or two, would anyone like to summarize how D*Scribe / Lemmy compares to Reddit or other similar communities? Does it boil down to being a decentralized service, or is there more going on behind the scenes?

    If it’s strength is a decentralized community of sorts, does this mean that, with our account here, we can now access other Lemmy servers and discussion groups on other servers?

    • TwilightKiddyEnglish
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      7 months ago

      It’s more or less similar to Reddit in terms of posting, voting and subscribing. The main power is indeed federation, meaning nobody needs huge servers to keep the network online. As long as instances don’t blacklist each other, you can freely view posts from foreign instances, subscribe to communities there and comment, all with an account on your home instance.

      There are some gimmicks, like on Reddit you could just write

      /r/subreddit

      to send someone to a sub, but here you’ll have to do

      !community@instance

      to specify the right place, e.g. [email protected], but it’s nothing too crazy.