this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
14 points (93.8% liked)

Asklemmy

43965 readers
1781 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

What are the pros and cons? For someone who has zero IT background so ELI5.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] danisth 1 points 1 year ago

Like the other comments have said, it’s probably not worth your time to bother. As to why you might want to start one:

  • you’re finding the instance your on is too slow
  • you want more control over which instances you’re federated with
  • you like to tinker
  • you want to build a meta-community that has its own identity