Am I seeing the right posts? Only 4 after a week that I’ve been here.
Most of the NSFW stuff on Lemmy is on the lemmynsfw.com instance
I’m absolutely unable to sign into that instance. Once I click the button it just sits there and swirls forever. I can’t pull any of their communities up in a search from .world either, even if I use the specific name like [email protected]
I’m new so I can’t tell if I’m doing something wrong or if that instance is just overloaded or not syncing credentials. 🤔
If it sits and spins like that when you try to register, it might mean the username you want is already taken, try logging in or a PW reset.
Or if you are trying to log on using your Lemmy.world creds, it doesn’t work like that. I’d recommend just making a new account at lemmynsfw
Or if you are trying to log on using your Lemmy.world creds, it doesn’t work like that.
Yep, that’s what I was trying to do. I figured it out after I threw up my hands and spent a couple of hours digesting how the fediverse works at the technical level. I still think it’s dumb that content and the ability to interact with it is federated but authentication isn’t but that’s just MHO.
This site will be dead in the water if it think users are going to visit 1000 domains needlessly to get different types of content.
Try the Lemmynsfw.com instance. Seems to be where most of the porn is going
Why is the federated fediverse so… fragmented.
This is a major roadblock to it’s widespread adoption. But to answer the question it’s not. It seems so but all instances are sort of talking to each other. Think of it like p2p social networking.
Why do we need separate instances
So that one entity doesn’t control the entire platform, mostly. With different instances, it’s difficult or impossible for a rich jerk or corporate ownership to make unilateral decisions that make the platform unusable. That could happen to any instance, sure, but there’s a lot less friction migrating to a different Lemmy instance than finding a new app entirely.
It also allows different people to join instances with policies that match their preferences. If I want porn I can go to a porn-friendly instance that won’t ban NSFW content; if I want piracy I can go to an instance that allows that; but neither of those would threaten a different instance who wants none of those things, and can freely defederate from the porn and piracy instance.
Thanks guys.
