How do instances decide to defederate other instances popping up in the future? E.g. an NSFW instance is created but I don't want to see any of it when I browse "All".

I'm optimistic although I know I probably won't have the same kind of conversations about esports I had on Reddit.

I guess I will have to scout around a bit to see if there are groups for things in local feeds on other lemmy instances that I can't see here? Rather than re-inventing the wheel?

Can we call communities "lemlets?"

Is there an easier way to find communities on other instances? I wish I could browse another instance as if it were "local" to organically find more communities.

I feel like having so many instances open before Lemmy as a whole grew really big is gonna be a hurdle for communities to grow really big. But maybe the culture of Lemmy will center itself around instances rather than communities. Either way I'm glad to see a Reddit competitor that actually expands upon what Reddit was doing through federation instead of just being "what if Reddit was smaller and buggier"

This is my first visit so I'm still trying to figure things out. I'm on the mobile website right now because I haven't been able to figure out how to log in on the Jerboa app. Can anyone tell me what "instance" means on Jerboa when you're logging in? I tried a couple different ones from the dropdown menu but they all said " incorrect login."

It feels quite right. We need to set up lots of niche communities, but what I miss the most is the user base. It was diverse, and lemmy is known to have an specific user profile. Would be nice to reach out, wear a former redditors badge, and wear it with pride!

I like it. Bringing over some No Man's Sky people. Is there a shorthand way to link communities? Like typing /r/NoMansSky would link to the subreddit on reddit, but /c/NoMansSky doesn't link to the community here. Would be a cool future feature if it's not one now!

I'm very happy there was an alternative.

Everything is new and confusing and some things a bit janky, but its also like dawn of new age.

I really REALLY hope lemmy and fediverse in general will be resilient against corporate corruption that will eventually try creeping in as popularity grows.

On Reddit you have your home page or start page that shows combined content from all of your subscribed subreddits and nothing else... how do I get to something like that here, or isn't there anything like that here?

Jerboa kinda sucks and Lemmur straight up doesn't let you sign in.

A lot of communities are unfortunately missing, the Lemmy devs should do a better job of advertising the platform to Reddit expats so we can have more content.

I'm hoping some third party Reddit apps rewrite themselves to support a Lemmy backend.

Pretty cool to see. I'm excited to see it grow. I'm pretty adamant about Mastodon being a great platform and seeing other decentralized platforms grow is awesome. I wanted to know how I can see a list of instances, or if anyone has any recommendations? I know myself and a lot of others likely joined the largest instances first, but I don't want to add onto an already stressed server.

Glad to see an alternative is gaining traction! The inversed colours for up and downvotes will take some getting used to!

To double-check that I understand Lemmy correctly: the equivalent to a subreddit is a server, right? So within lemmy.world there aren’t necessarily subforums/topics/subreddits.

I'm waiting for some new communities to pop up, but the layout is good.

I am still trying to wrap my head around how it all works, but I feel like I am slowly getting the hang of it. One thing I was wondering, and forgive me if I get the terminologies wrong, since instances are their own little ecosystems, wouldn't there be multiple versions of the identical communities i.e. gaming, videos etc., or is that the beauty of it all?

Another minor concern I have is that since instances are run by individuals, wouldn't there be a risk of losing massive amounts of content if said owner no longer wishes to maintain their instance or "goes rogue" for a lack of a better word and shuts down access to all communities located on that particular instance/server.

I'm liking it but if there's a search function I'm not finding it? Like, I want to go looking for communities by topic.