I’m in Lemmy.world, but I’ve seen there are others. Do I have to switch in between them (if so, how?) or is it fine the way I have it?

Thanks a lot.

  • @Quickswitch79 Due to the magic of the Fediverse you don’t even need to be on Lemmy!

    Kbin is another similar system that interacts with Lemmy, and this reply has come from Mastodon!

    Although in general I wouldn’t recommend using Mastodon to interact with Lemmy communities, it works but it’s not what either system is optimised for so it’s a bit clunky.

    But it’s still pretty amazing to me: it’s like using Twitter or Instagram to read and reply to Reddit!

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      But it’s still pretty amazing to me: it’s like using Twitter or Instagram to read and reply to Reddit!

      It’s probably amazing because everybody is used to social media platforms blocking access to and from other platforms. The point of these commercial platforms is to reel in as many users as possible and keep them in the ecosystem. No export possibilities, no federation or standard protocol.

      It’s like a large company inventing e-mail and not allowing people to e-mail to an e-mail address registered to another domain. Nobody would think that’s logical, but most have grown accustomed to commercial social media locking every account in.

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    It doesn’t matter as long as:

    • Your instance isn’t defederated from too many big instances. (LW is defederated from beehaw.org so I have alternative accounts to view posts from there).
    • Your instance doesn’t have a specific topic that you aren’t interested in. (LW is a general-topic instance so that’s all good).
    • Your instance has good uptime. (LW often has issues with huge masses of users migrating over from Reddit).

    It’s still a very good instance. If you want to switch over to a different instance, check out Awesome-Lemmy-Instances on Github.

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      That’s the basis of the whole system, they use the same protocol to communicate(activity pub) and share content.

      It allows anyone to run their own version of reddit and they can decide which other servers they want to have content from