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Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
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Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
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That's it.
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Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
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Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
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Let everyone have their own content.
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Why do you want to create a user there? I imagine it will reopen eventually, but you are likely much better off creating a user elsewhere.
I'm using the liftoff app and I can't upvote posts that originate from lemmy.ml.
That sounds odd, can you upvote posts when you are using the web interface or another app?
That's because liftoff aggregates posts from multiple instances on its own, rather than relying on instances "federating" with each other. The benefit of this is that it gives you control of what instances you see content from, rather than the instance owners deciding for you.
Personally, I think that makes way more sense than making instances "federate" with each other to share content. The only interoperability instances really need is the ability to post to communities that are hosted on other instances. We don't need instances to be sending the entirety of all their content to each other; clients can aggregate that on their own.
At the same time, federation allows citizen administrators to create and maintain new instances. Let us say there are 1000 instances with 1000 users each. It is relatively easy to host a server for 1000 people that federates with max 999 instances. And yet, one post can reach 1 million people.
The same would be much harder for a private person and 1 instance that has to serve 1 million people.