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How would you explain to a new user how Lemmy works? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by maniac to c/[email protected]

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I plan on making two videos, one where I explain how Lemmy works and then how to post in a community. I'm going to do my own research but is there any points you want to give to a new user?

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[–] sauron 2 points 1 year ago

You know how in older games, the community runs the multiplayer servers because the original company was either shit or shut down the servers?

Reddit is like the original company. Lemmy is like the user ran servers. It's basically the same thing as reddit, but we host it instead of them, which puts us in control over which "servers" we join, and we can choose which ones we like based on the rules.