nanashimy thoughts on lemmy so far
I thought the same thing when Voat started as a mirror to Reddit. It was similar for a while but every time a troll or Nazi was ejected from Reddit they migrated to Voat. Eventually I was one of the last liberals there. Is there anyone maintaining order here or will it be the wild west ?
"here" is relative in the Fediverse.
Here? sure, but there will be right-wing Lemmy instances. It's almost a rule of existence at this point.
I don't totally understand the fediverse yet. So an instance is basically just a portion of a website on a certain server, right? And all the instances communicate with each other to create one website?
iodIf you mean lemmy as the name of the website then yes. All these instances(or servers) create the whole network which lemmy is trying to build. For example you signed up with lemmy.ml, an instance that was created and run by the lemmy devs. This instance has communities(like subreddits) where people can post things. You can sub to these communities and they'll appear in your feed. But other instances like beehaw also have their own communities where people can post, and you can subscribe to those communities too(using your acc here on lemmy.ml, without signing up on beehaw)
lemmy and beehaw have their own list of members and their own admins with their own rules of whats acceptable and not.
When you become more comfortable you'll realize lemmy can also interact with other fediverse software( or websites) like mastodon but for now this is more than enough.
lelgenioFrom a user's point of view it's just like email, you create your account on one server, you login with any app that supports that standard, you can interact with people from any other server, yet each server has a different owner and has it's own address.
7eterit's like e-mail group but on steroids. Everyone can open his account where he likes. (E-Mail-Provider ~ Instance-Provider) but we can all communicate see each others posts interact in various ways and even get kinda different interfaces like Lemmy, Mastodon, Friendica, and many more.