Welcome to your new online home!
Whether you’ve just joined out of curiosity after the banning of the original r/TheDeprogram or you’ve decided to leave Reddit for good, I’m glad that you’re here and this megathread is for you!
Instead of having multiple comments across different posts, which might make it difficult to see, you can now ask your questions and post your feedback here.
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ELI5 What is Lemmy? What is Lemmygrad? What’s the difference?
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Can I get a TLDR?
You sure can!
- Choose an Instance (For Marxist/Leftist communities, I recommend one of the following 3. Each of these Instance explain their values and moderation policies):
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Sign up and personalize your profile
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Choose how to browse (You can find a lot of options right here based on your preferences - you can use an app or an alternative front-end)
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Find your favorite communities to subscribe to (Instead of subreddits, here we have communities!)
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That’s it! You’re ready to interact with other lovely users and engage in the community
If you want to share your opinion after joining Lemmy, seek feedback on the best browsing apps, or discuss anything else, feel free to do so right here!
Instances are servers in the Fediverse, such as your lemmy.zip. In the case of Lemmy, these are servers on which Lemmy runs.
Federated is a statement about the connection between instances. lemmy.zip is federated with lemmygrad.ml and vice versa. This means that you can post/comment from lemmy.zip here in lemmygrad.ml, and lemmygrad.ml users can do the same on lemmy.zip.
Defederated means that the administrators of an instance have severed the connection (the federation) to another instance. For example, lemmy.world defederated lemmygrad.ml. If your account were there, you wouldn’t even be able to see this post. For lemmy.world users, it’s as if lemmygrad.ml doesn’t exist.
You can see which instances lemmy.zip is federated with and which ones the lemmy.zip admins have defederated at https://lemmy.zip/instances.
This is a lucid explanation. Thank you!