I’ve posted more in the last 3 months here, than in 8 years on reddit. I’m really trying to be more active. The more you post the easier it gets. For me, its less scary posting on a small instance.
lemmy.ml is the instance run by the developers of lemmy. They have very strong feelings about certain things and one is a distaste for NSFW. You’ll notice that other than lemmynsfw, you have to log in to see NSFW. lemmy.ml doesn’t allow NSFW. Them and lemmy.world have some pretty big de-federation lists. The idea behind federation is to have lots of small sites each with their own communities and the sites themselves can talk to each other. People can decide what instance they like most and join there, or join a personal instance. That has issues with discovery though.
The admin(s) of an instance have complete control over de federation. If @Wander@yiffit.net wanted to, he could decide to de-federate from everyone, I trust he won’t ever do that.
If you have lots of small instances, the threat of de-federation is much less than if you only have a few large instances.
If you have FOMO, there is nothing that stops you from creating accounts on other instances. You can see some other discussion about federation issues at https://yiffit.net/post/3321843
I’ve posted more in the last 3 months here, than in 8 years on reddit. I’m really trying to be more active. The more you post the easier it gets. For me, its less scary posting on a small instance.
lemmy.ml is the instance run by the developers of lemmy. They have very strong feelings about certain things and one is a distaste for NSFW. You’ll notice that other than lemmynsfw, you have to log in to see NSFW. lemmy.ml doesn’t allow NSFW. Them and lemmy.world have some pretty big de-federation lists. The idea behind federation is to have lots of small sites each with their own communities and the sites themselves can talk to each other. People can decide what instance they like most and join there, or join a personal instance. That has issues with discovery though.
The admin(s) of an instance have complete control over de federation. If @Wander@yiffit.net wanted to, he could decide to de-federate from everyone, I trust he won’t ever do that.
If you have lots of small instances, the threat of de-federation is much less than if you only have a few large instances.
If you have FOMO, there is nothing that stops you from creating accounts on other instances. You can see some other discussion about federation issues at https://yiffit.net/post/3321843