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.

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

Any additional information on these questions would be massively appreciated.

  • @pink_harveyEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    You really only need one account. You can participate in conversations and communities across (pretty much) all servers.

    1. Yes, it’s a different instance
    2. You always subscribe to communities. They are hosted on one instance, but people across all instances can participate.
    3. Different instances. Might have different rules for local content, look it up!
    4. Not really.
    5. Not sure, actually. It’s either all content posted to your instance’s community or all content posted by people on your instance. Maybe someone else can elborate?
    6. I suppose all is also pulling content from all instances yours federates with?