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Interesting! Thanks for this insight I’m currently spinning up my lemmy.ml account to access some of the communities I otherwise cannot interact with but I want to. All of this is making more sense as to why all the lemmy.world communities are listed there but not here under the “all” tab when you are searching.
This shit is so cool. I really like the whole lemmy concept even if there are some idiosyncrasies to learn at the start.
OH I think I get it now. You can kinda subscribe to whatever but some instances have “shadowbanned” the leftist instances and their users. I think this also explains why my subscriptions to the lemmy.world communities are still pending.
This megathread has been very useful I am wrapping my head around the whole fediverse concept more now. Thank you!
In your experience do people typically have multiple accounts for stuff like this? I ended up keeping my lemmy.ml and hexbear accounts bc I am lazy and didn’t want to do the vetting again but it seems that maybe there is more utility to them to be able to communicate with instances they are federated with but we are not.
Maybe you can provide some clarification for me as a new user. When I found out about the Deprogram subreddit ban I found out about Lemmy and signed up on the 3 leftist instances because I didnt understand how it worked. I also signed up on Lemmy.world and Lemmy.zip but I deleted them after I figured out the federation part of this and decided I wanted my account to be based on one of the leftist instances.
I ended up choosing Lemmygrad mostly because the Deprogram subreddit was a big one I used all the time and it’s exhausting having libs constantly attacking you for making innocuous comments about leftist thought. Kinda got over having to have my metaphorical guard up all the time.
BUT I am now subbed to a bunch of instances on lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and hexbear. Also a few others not on those ones. I’ve found myself able to interact and all that but from your message it sounds like there are downsides that I don’t quite get.
Like from what you have said, if I make a post on Lemmygrad it doesn’t show up on other instances or something like that? I’ve been making posts and comments in other instances and it seems to all work? Ultimately I don’t really know if I care all that much but I’m seeking to understand further.
Apologies if this is the wrong place for this type of questions I know there is a place do these and what I’m asking has probably been answered a ton already.
Thank you for the write up! Also thanks for the links to the other fediverse stuff I joined Matrix the other day and was looking to continue exploring this whole thing!