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Obviously with the closing of the Reddit API all of our favourite apps no longer work and you've ended up here looking for alternatives. Lemmy in general isn't Reddit, it's just similar and so it will take a minute to adapt, but as with all communities, it's you that makes it. Thanks especially for choosing Lemmy.tf as your instance. It's nice, speedy and well maintained. I look forward to seeing you all around. Have fun and if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly can't say I've seen a FAQ. In fact people have been suggesting someone makes one. But I will try and answer for you what I can.

Think of Lemmy as a food court. You know where there's communal tables surrounded by all different restaurants. Well the restaurants are the servers, we call them instances. You can get food from any of restaurants and bring them back to your table. The food would be the communities.

Does that make sense?

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

It would definitely be helpful, but we can all manage in the meantime. I just didn’t want to do the wrong thing or upset the balance. This is its own thing and I want to learn y’all’s procedure and whatnot and adapt to you.

Thank you for that explanation! So I can still view all other content from any instance? That’s pretty cool! Are there any standard apps that are optimized for normal use? I’m currently using Mlem because that’s what worked. But I’m also seeing references to things like Mastodon, and Lemmy.World. But I’m still not sure if the lingo or what things mean.

Thanks for taking the time to explain! I appreciate it!