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06-21-2024, 04:30 AM
Lemmy is a self-hosted, federated social link aggregation and discussion forum. ... completely free and open, not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms.
Federation is a form of decentralization. Instead of a single central service that everyone uses, there are multiple services that any number of people can use. Instead of a single website like reddit.com, there are many different websites (called instances). These are operated by different people, have different topics and rules. Nevertheless, posts created in one instance can directly be seen by users who are registered on another. Users of one instance can participate in communities of other instances. The fediverse ("federated universe") is the name for all instances that can communicate with each other...
It is better to avoid very big or very small instances. But don't worry too much about this choice, you can always create another account on a different instance later. I have selected instance with medium user count, in my language, location near my VPN server and with high uptime.
Instances:
A) https://join-lemmy.org/instances
B) https://lemmyverse.net/?open=true
C) https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Communities:
https://browse.feddit.de
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
https://lemmy-federate.com - federate/distribute community to different instances ([details](https://lemy.lol/post/19638974), mainly for instance admins)
Once instance account is registered, i have used above linked community lists to find communities of interest and copy/paste its URLs e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/protonprivacy (it also accepts format "[email protected]") into a search field that is found at my instance / Communities.
That way i could display subscribe to the local and external communities.
Later i went to my account settings (click my username in the corner) -> https://instance.address/settings and selected to display "Type: Subscribed" on the instance's main page instead of non-interesting content. + enabled email notifications (of a new replies to my posts).
Firefox extensions for Lemmy: https://lemmy.today/post/176205
If you want to contact (PM) user of an external instance, you may try to click some user name in your local instance to see their profile and then adjust the URL to match external user like this:
https://lemmings.world/u/[email protected]
Federation is a form of decentralization. Instead of a single central service that everyone uses, there are multiple services that any number of people can use. Instead of a single website like reddit.com, there are many different websites (called instances). These are operated by different people, have different topics and rules. Nevertheless, posts created in one instance can directly be seen by users who are registered on another. Users of one instance can participate in communities of other instances. The fediverse ("federated universe") is the name for all instances that can communicate with each other...
It is better to avoid very big or very small instances. But don't worry too much about this choice, you can always create another account on a different instance later. I have selected instance with medium user count, in my language, location near my VPN server and with high uptime.
Instances:
A) https://join-lemmy.org/instances
B) https://lemmyverse.net/?open=true
C) https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Communities:
https://browse.feddit.de
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
https://lemmy-federate.com - federate/distribute community to different instances ([details](https://lemy.lol/post/19638974), mainly for instance admins)
Once instance account is registered, i have used above linked community lists to find communities of interest and copy/paste its URLs e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/protonprivacy (it also accepts format "[email protected]") into a search field that is found at my instance / Communities.
That way i could display subscribe to the local and external communities.
Later i went to my account settings (click my username in the corner) -> https://instance.address/settings and selected to display "Type: Subscribed" on the instance's main page instead of non-interesting content. + enabled email notifications (of a new replies to my posts).
Firefox extensions for Lemmy: https://lemmy.today/post/176205
If you want to contact (PM) user of an external instance, you may try to click some user name in your local instance to see their profile and then adjust the URL to match external user like this:
https://lemmings.world/u/[email protected]