Maybe something that is not understood by new lemmings, at least me, is that when we join communities in other instances we may find ourselves blocked from accessing them (without creating another account) in the future.
A reasonable PSA seems to be to keep in mind the ‘philosophy’ of other instances before joining general interest communities such as News, Technology, Gaming, etc…
As posted by @[email protected] at https://lemmy.ml/post/1243402 , there are some instances that seem to have an easy trigger when blocking others:
Beehaw 387 TagPro.lol 384 lemmy.techstache 384 lib.lgbt 382 tchncs 69 Pawb.Social 67 Divisions by zero 54 Feddit 47 Feddit.dk 47 Feddit.nu 47 Lemmygrad 42 Leddit Social 42 clatter 41 lemmy.game-files.net 41 oceanbreeze.earth 39 Clueware’s lemmy 39 MRM 38 SS14 Lemmy 25
That would be a good PSA for sure. As the platform grows, each instance will develop it’s own theme and culture (some of which is already noticeable).
Each user will then need to decide what instance seems to be the closest to what they want Lemmy to be like, and then join that. I only hope it doesn’t boil down to echo chambers who refuse to federate with each other due to petty reasons.