I don’t have anything against but I didn’t subscribe to those communities, still, this is the majority of the posts I see when I come on Lemmy.ml.
Is there something wrong my settings ? I am more interested by FOSS and science stuff.
I don’t have anything against but I didn’t subscribe to those communities, still, this is the majority of the posts I see when I come on Lemmy.ml.
Is there something wrong my settings ? I am more interested by FOSS and science stuff.
Don’t you think it is ridiculous complicated ?
I thought lemmy.ml was the instance of the official project.
No, Lemmy.ml is just one instance that happens to be run by the head devs. The thing about the Fediverse is that there’s no “official” instance.
The website title is confusing though. It never specifies lemmy*.ml*, just ‘Lemmy’.
That’s just the default name in the source code, so every new instance would say that in the title.
It’s still a valid point though. Maybe that should be addressed.
It is, explicitly, not official. The sidebar explains this.
I do not. What’s complicated about multiple sites using the same software and sharing content with each other? Maybe it would help if you could explain to us why you thought this instance was official, so we can prevent others having this misconception in the future.
That is the whole point of federated communities - you don’t have to be on lemmy.ml to engage with lemmy content. To understand what lemmy.ml is about see this meta post.
If you were to try setting up an account on another instance I think you wouldn’t find it complicated at all. If the instance federates with lemmy, the lemmy.ml posts are available via ALL on posts and the lemmy communities can be accessed via the ALL button on communities. It’s fantastic.
Thank you, i know the concept of federation, I used to use mastodon. But I don’t know, it does not sound intuitive in the context of lemmy.
It is as complicated to register on another instance as it is to register on lemmy.ml. Furthermore, as another commenter pointed out, there’s no official instance for Lemmy, as the devs believe that hurts the whole points of federation (and I agree). They do, however, run an instance tuned to their preference, and since it was the first one, it attracted the most users.
I’m running my own instance and it is very easy and nice to use :)