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A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

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In essence, what woud you say lemmy is? A way to have all your old forum subscriptions in one place in the form of communies?

Or is there something else I'm missing?

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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fundamentally it's Reddit but distributed.

[–] Ninguem@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe I should have been on Reddit first to really understand it.

[–] ninguem@ciberlandia.pt 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Lmaydev I love the federation part of it, though. Shouldn't lemmy be more like stack exchange, then?

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

In its use it's practically exactly the same as Reddit. I would say it's format is taken pretty much as is from Reddit.

The difference is the instances. Now instead of just reddit.com we have a series of websites each with their own admins.

This adds a new dimension to it's ecosystem and lots of new drama. But to most users makes very little difference.