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Hello there!
Lemmy is a federated social platform. What does this mean for me? It means that you could be on any instance, and talk to most other instances.
What is an instance? An instance of lemmy is just a single individual lemmy server. You can host your own on a VPS if you want!
An instance is a single copy of the software running on a single physical or virtual server. If you run two copies of the software on the same physical or virtual server, that counts as two instances.
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I am on lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz, and I am able to interact with you, a lemmy.blahaj.zone user, on lemmy.blahaj.zone!
This is the power of a federated community!
Do I have to create a new login for every lemmy site I use?
You dont. My account is from the german instance feddit.de and I can see, post and comment on many different instances. The only reason to have different accounts is to access an instance that defederated from the one you were using since they cant contact each other. But with some exceptions you are better off not visiting those instances anyways because they often are full of trolls, neocons or tankies: people that dont deserve a platform.
Well, they’re different websites, so yeah. Except no, because the fact that they’re federated with each other means you can participate in communities from other instances.
Source: I’m doing it right now
So how can I make a post to lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz from lemmy.blahaj.zone?
Yes, unless blahaj made a clear effort to defederate from antemeridiem
Find a community, subscribe to it if you want to be able to see new posts and comments, and select that community when making a post.
But antemeridian isn’t on the list :(
You’re on pc, yeah?
Go to search bar.
Type
!okbuddybaka@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
Don’t forget the !.
Also, if it says no results found, simply reload the tab. It will show then.
I managed to make a post on cats, The ones on the r/196 list have a subscribe button, but antemeridian doesn’t. So I guess they aren’t linked.
If you can’t see a community, it is likely nobody on your instance is subscribed. On the top right of the page, search for the community (with the instance included), wait a few seconds, then search again. Subscribe to it, and you should be able to post there.
Search with the format !community@instance.tld, example: !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Lemmy
Ian Fraser Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015), better known as Lemmy Kilmister or simply Lemmy, was an English musician. He was the founder, lead singer, bassist and primary songwriter of the rock band Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member, and a member of Hawkwind from 1971 to 1975.
A foundational force in the genre following the advent of the new wave of British heavy metal, Lemmy was known for his appearance, which included his signature friendly mutton chops, his military-influenced fashion sense and his gravelly rasp of a voice. It was once declared “one of the most recognisable voices in rock”.[1] He was also noted for his unique way of singing, which was once described as “looking up towards a towering microphone tilted down into his weather-beaten face”.[2] He was also known for his bass playing style and using his Rickenbacker bass to create an “overpowered, distorted rhythmic rumble”.[2] Another notable aspect of his bass sound was his guitar-like riffing, which included using a pick, and often played power chords using heavily overdriven tube stacks by Marshall.
Lemmy was born in Stoke-on-Trent and grew up between there, the nearby towns of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Madeley, and later the Welsh village of Benllech, Anglesey. At a later point, Lemmy remembers living briefly at Gwrych Castle, Abergele.[3] He was influenced by rock and roll and the early works of the Beatles, which led to him playing in several rock groups in the 1960s, such as the Rockin’ Vickers. He worked as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix and The Nice before joining the space rock band Hawkwind in 1971, singing lead vocals on their hit “Silver Machine”. In 1975, he was fired from Hawkwind after an arrest for drug possession. That same year, he founded Motörhead. The band’s success peaked around 1980 and 1981, including the hit single “Ace of Spades” and the chart-topping live album No Sleep 'til Hammersmith.
Lemmy continued to record and tour regularly with Motörhead until his death on 28 December 2015 in Los Angeles, where he had lived since 1990. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer two days before his death. Alongside his music career, he had minor roles and cameos in film and television. He was known for his hard-living lifestyle, which included chain-smoking and daily consumption of large amounts of alcohol and amphetamine.
Instance
noun noun: instance; plural noun: instances
an example or single occurrence of something. "a serious instance of corruption" exemplification a particular case. "in this instance it mattered little"verb verb: instance; 3rd person present: instances; past tense: instanced; past participle: instanced; gerund or present participle: instancing
cite (a fact, case, etc.) as an example. "here he instances in particular the work of Bach"What is going on here
Users on a forum are chatting. This a forum, but without a singular owner. Each “instance” is just some rando who provides the resources to store, and send out posts. All of these randos allow everyone to see it all in an interconnected massive forum, and some only house certain types of content. Say gayporn.ml only housing christian minecraft server content.
Am I an instance? 🥺
The real instance is the friends we make along the way
Here’s an excellent explainer short from @misnina@crystals.rest:
lemmy is a type of website that looks like reddit, a lemmy instance is one of those website.
Ideally, all of the different website that runs lemmy can display and interract with all the other lemmy websites, but since 3 random americans can’t be put in a room together without fighting, some websites running lemmy don’t want to talk to each others, so the plenty of sites running lemmy have to allow each others to communicate with each others, like friend invites on facebook, those are called federations.
Lemmy is a federated social platform similar to Reddit. The developer of Lemmy runs lemmygrad where people deny genocide and they love communist dictators.
You got any more info on that? Because jezus I might just give up on the internet as a whole.
Why does it say 0 comments, I just replied to a comment? Why do the upvotes keep changing? It’s gone from 25 to 0 to 3 to 6 to 11 to 28 to 10. I’m scared 😭
Instability now because software issues/immaturity, but chaos long term because instances get to decide how to do things. Is any of this going to work? If you like chaos in your internet browsing website interaction experience you’ve found the right place.
There’s an idea of “building a plane as we’re flying it.” Creating something where you inherently do not know what it’ll look like or even if it’ll work. The only thing that everyone agrees on is hitting the ground is bad.
The Fediverse is like a squadron of incomplete planes flying together. Each plane has webcams for users in other planes, if they want them. Sometimes planes will veer off and form their own squadron. Sometimes long lost planes will fly back and rejoin. Each plane has people simply enjoying the ride, and others trying to figure out what they’ve build and what’s next and whether the ground is getting bigger in the window. Sometimes anger at the pilots boils over into people grabbing parachutes and jumping off. Some go to other planes, some try to build their own plane where they can put their ideas for how to fly into practice.
We don’t have established theories how to administrate sites, which I believe is because we don’t really know how to grant and check power IRL. Experience is clear moderating/administrating internet sites requires a lot of leeway, but that leeway will eventually trend towards abuse. Modern platforms are good at suppressing user revolts, which has lead to a lot of stagnation on the internet.
Instead each Fediverse instance gets to decide for themselves how to run things; including what other instances to interact with and on what terms. Users in turn get to decide what instances work best for them. An instance that believes downvotes are harmful can ignore them. An instance that believes downvotes are important can give them extra weight. Which one makes more sense? Let’s find out!
This leads to my Grand Unified Theory of Good and Deep Link Aggregation and Discussion (GUTGooDLAD): this is about finding your Cool Kids and hanging out with them. You’ll know when you are accepted as a Cool Kid, but it’ll be the communities with the spiciest shitposts, cutest cat pictures, and of course the most interesting links and comments.
So go forth and find your Cool Kids, cool kid. And if you can’t find them, build the communities where your Cool Kids will find you.
