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I really want to make sure I get this right (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m really bought in to the Lemmy experience and I want others to share similar interests. However, I know they will have a massive amount of questions, and I want to be able to answer them in addition to my own curiosities. Here are a few questions that I have that I am still fuzzy on.

I created an account on lemm.ee. Is lemm.ee a separate instance?
When subscribing, are you subscribing to separate instances or different communities within a particular instance?
What is the difference between lemm.ee and lemmy.ml?
Is there any reason to make new accounts on different instances?
When I’m looking at the “Local” feed, what am I looking at?
What is the difference between the “Local” feed and the “All” feed?

Any additional information on these questions would be massively appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could you elaborate on “federated with”?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Subscribed to by a user on your instance

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It basically means contents someone on your instance have interacted with. Either they subed to the community, commented on a post, upvoted a post, etc.

All of these actions requires your instance to ask for information about that post from its instance. And your instance will cache these information (because why not, your instance has already done the work to get the info), and serve it to people when they see "all".

Basically you can see things outside of your instance, so there is more content than local.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How can I check what communities/instances my home instance is federated with?

Is there any instance that federated with everything so I can just scroll through and subscribe to the ones I want?