Reddit is starting to suck more and more everyday so here I am. A couple of questions -

  1. I created my account at lemmy.ca, but most people I have seen have lemmy.world accounts. Am I missing out on anything by not having a lemmy.world account?

  2. Reddit has an offical subreddit for Reddit news. Does Lemmy have any offical communities?

  3. On Reddit, you can’t post on some subreddits if you do not have enough karma or if your account is not old enough. Are there any rules like that on Lemmy?

Thank you!

  • Asudox@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    1. No. That’s the beauty of federation. Lemmy is not centralized like Reddit. You don’t need to be on lemmy.world to see things from it or from other instances like lemm.ee, lemmy.ml, ani.social, etc. There are exceptions though, for example lemmy.world might be defederated with X instance while some other instance might be federated with that instance X. So you wouldn’t be able to see things from that instance X from lemmy.world but from some other instance that is federated with X.

    2. Since Lemmy is not centralized, there’s no “official” community (subreddits are called communities here) here. Your instance might have a meta instance community though.

    3. There’s nothing like that here, at least not builtin. You can easily code up some bot to implement it though. !asklemmy@lemmy.world had a bot do that once when the fediverse was being spammed by some group.

    Note: Do keep in mind that you CANNOT bring your comments and post with you if you want to switch instances. Only subscribed communities and some account settings. There were some discussions about using DIDs and one other tech I forgot to make that possible, but it’s not implemented yet.