When the world wide web was fresh? Absolutely, it was.

Can this even happen while they’re at war with Russia?

Infinite loading icon when trying to create community. Server just getting bogged down?

I’ll probably get around to making some of the communities that I miss. I don’t know that I have time to moderate, so it’s still up in the air.

I set type to “all” in my settings, but the default is still “local.” Anyone know what’s up with that?

I’ve found that each explanation I read kind of helped me understand; it took the totality of all them before it finally clicked. So I’m going to copy and paste my explanation that I shared with someone else, in hopes that it helps to further understanding. Some people grasp concepts differently, so I offered a new explanation.

Let’s pretend there are three different websites: reddit.com, feddit.com, and seddit.com. Each one has its own subreddits:

reddit.com/r/funny

feddit.com/r/funny

seddit.com/r/funny

These three websites can browse ALL of the other sites’ subreddits. On reddit.com you can browse and comment reddit.com/r/funny, feddit.com/r/funny, and seddit.com/r/funny, even though these three subreddits are entirely different from each other and not linked in any way. These subreddits are known as communities. Now it doesn’t matter whether you sign up on reddit, feddit, or seddit, since they can all browse ALL of the communities.

Now to expand on that just a tad: reddit, feddit, and seddit will still have their own rules, permissions, and such since they’re independent of each other. These distinguishing factors are (as far as I know) the only reason to choose one over another. Maybe server speed and some other factors.

The usernames reflect where you signed up. If I signed up on feddit, my username would be [email protected]

Hope that helps. I’ve found that once you understand lemmy, the explanations are more complicated than the actual setup itself.

Now that I’m more comfortable with Lemmy, I’m enjoying it more. I’ll probably browse reddit from time to time, but I’d like to make this my new home.

I’d also like to see what this place can be when everyone is talking about something besides reddit.

My only complaint thus far is the communities on separate instances I’ve subscribed to still say “subscription pending,” so I can’t see them on the mlem app.

Edit: Actually, it appears I can see them. The “subscribe pending” just seems to be some kind of error.

The whole structure, really. I read the infogram user guide thing, but I’m still not keen on how “instances” and communities work. What instance can see what, etc. Is there a lemmy equivalent of /r/all?

Yeah, I’m a tad confused, too. But I’m willing to hang around and check it out for a bit.