I’m finally making the switch from Reddit. The Voyager app seems like a pretty seamless transition, but I’d love to hear any tips about using this platform, or what quirks distinguish it from Reddit as a whole.
I’m finally making the switch from Reddit. The Voyager app seems like a pretty seamless transition, but I’d love to hear any tips about using this platform, or what quirks distinguish it from Reddit as a whole.
I don’t know what to tell you, other than that a lot of the most active users of Lemmy.ml are Anarchists, and most communities on Lemmy.ml are not affiliated with Marxism to begin with, even if you include communities like World News that are more politically focused as “Marxist.”
Either way, I wouldn’t call Lemmy.world more tolerant, but tolerant of a different set of views. Lemmy.ml is more broadly federated than .world is, while .world selectively defederates from instances it isn’t aligned with politically. Even further, OP is on Lemm.ee, just asking on Lemmy.ml’s AskLemmy community, which makes sense as one of the biggest AskLemmy communities.
I’m not even trying to dig on Lemmy.world or anything, I just want to point out that it’s not really accurate to consider Lemmy.ml a Marxist-Leninist instance, unlike Lemmygrad.ml, or even Hexbear.net which is an umbrella Leftist instance.
So in case it wasn’t painfully obvious, I’m a total noob and don’t even know what lemmy.ee is haha. Do I need to make new accounts for each suffix or can I move it around—and what effect does my account being .ee vs .ml or whatever have on the experience?
Instances are like mini Reddits, many with their own unique flavor and focus (such as tech, LGBTQ+, politics, etc), with their own communities. You can stay within said instance by sorting locally. You can also see other communities on other instances by searching for them, or by browsing by all.
Does that make sense?
So if I were in a tech one for instance, the difference between that and just joining r/technology is that it aggregates all the sublemmies/posts that fall within that category? To kind of create a one size fits all home feed?
Not exactly, but close! Rather than pulling communities from other instances, it will have its own communities, but these local communities will usually have a tech focus, and thus so will the users. programming.dev is one example I know of. That doesn’t mean they don’t have other communities like for gaming and whatnot, but by virtue of being hosted on programming.dev, a gaming community there will likely have users more with a programming background.
That’s why generalist instances are, IMO, overrated. You can visit other federated instances, so your All feed will cover you for diversity if you want to step outside your niche.
Different instances go for different federation strategies, though. Hexbear.net, as an example, likes to have generally small lists for federation and remain fairly self-contained, as it is a space generally for Communists and Anarchists and does a good job of protecting its large queer userbase. Instances like Lemm.ee, like the one you have an account with, see almost everything, and are designed more for their All sort than local (though some communities are definitely on Lemm.ee).
Does that make sense?
That makes a lot more sense! So can I move this account to a different instance or do I have to create new ones for each?
New ones for each instance. I have a Lemmy.ml account, this one, that I generally use to try to talk to people about Marxism or Marxism-Leninism (as you’ve found out by now), and a Hexbear.net account I use to relax, keep up with the news, and chat about gaming and cooking with other dirty commies like myself. Many people have alt accounts on different instances, the Local New sort is actually my preferred sorting method on both instances.
That being said, you can visit nearly any community from the account you’re on, it just requires knowing about it or getting lucky in All sorting.
Good deal. You’ve been very helpful in this thread, thanks.
No problem! 🫡