So i was earlier at mainstream social media apps, by it was very shitty(dumb people), then I went to reddit, after some while I realised it’s also shit(clown people and dumb mods, like no freedom). So now I found this. I have few queries- 1.How does fediverse and lemmy work, couldn’t find much on the Internet and AI wasn’t much help either. 2.Whats the environment here? 3.What all words and how freedom is allowed here? 4.What are some general rules/unspoken tradition to follow if any? 5.Anything else u wanna tell about

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago
    1. The fediverse works a little like email. You know how you can have an account with Google’s Gmail service and still send messages to your uncle’s Compuserve account, your work uses Microsoft’s Outlook service, and lots of businesses have their own domains? But they all talk the same protocol so these independent services can all interact? The fediverse does the same thing. The protocol is called ActivityPub, and it means that all fediverse systems can communicate to a point. You’ll sometimes see Mastodon users interacting with Lemmy. Lemmy is a Reddit clone UI wise. We call subreddits “communities”. The different instances are like those different email services, it’s why you, with an account on thelemmy.club, created a post on asklemmy@lemmy.world where I, a user on sh.itjust.works, saw it.
    2. The environment here is yin to Reddit’s yang. On Reddit, Hitler did nothing wrong, on Lemmy, Mao did nothing wrong.
    3. Same as Reddit, you can say whatever the mods agree with.
    4. Don’t call communities “subreddits.” Don’t mention Nicole.