Think of instances as servers. Unlike Reddit, which is - as far as you’re concerned anyway - one server and one company running that server, Lemmy is a collection of small and not-so-small servers run by individual people to organizations, that synchronize one another’s contents.
But some servers are run by people with certain convictions, or certain moral codes, or certain rules, and they refuse to synchronize with certain other servers. For example, many servers that carry outrageous porn aren’t synchronized by other servers, so the local users of those servers aren’t subjected to the non-synchronized content.
Those servers that aren’t synchronized by other servers are said to be defederated by those other servers.
The ultra-weirdo Stalinist instances are defederated by a lot of other, more reasonable instances for a variety of reasons. For instance, Sopuli - which is run by a Finn - doesn’t federate Lemmygrad and Hexbear because the Stalinist shit really isn’t up the Finns’ alley for obvious historical reasons.
You’re already on lemm.ee which is the second largest instance on the fediverse and generally tries as much as possible not to defederate from anyone, even these tankie instances
SDF - the one I’m on - is one of the few that won’t defederate any other instance on the ground that you can choose what to block yourself. That’s why I chose it. The flipside of SDF is that it’s regularly dog slow, and goes down more often that I would like. But I have other accounts on other instances when that happens. But those instances won’t show everything SDF shows.
I just wanted to get away from reddit, but i am starting to think Lemmy is both a little too complicated, and lacks the amount of users that made reddit interesting.
In general, you don’t need to worry about instances, provided you’re part of a decent one. You are, so you’re good. Stop worrying about it and enjoy the content.
Sorry I misunderstood your question.
Think of instances as servers. Unlike Reddit, which is - as far as you’re concerned anyway - one server and one company running that server, Lemmy is a collection of small and not-so-small servers run by individual people to organizations, that synchronize one another’s contents.
But some servers are run by people with certain convictions, or certain moral codes, or certain rules, and they refuse to synchronize with certain other servers. For example, many servers that carry outrageous porn aren’t synchronized by other servers, so the local users of those servers aren’t subjected to the non-synchronized content.
Those servers that aren’t synchronized by other servers are said to be defederated by those other servers.
The ultra-weirdo Stalinist instances are defederated by a lot of other, more reasonable instances for a variety of reasons. For instance, Sopuli - which is run by a Finn - doesn’t federate Lemmygrad and Hexbear because the Stalinist shit really isn’t up the Finns’ alley for obvious historical reasons.
So which instance should i host my profile on if i don’t want anyone else to decide which instances are blocked for me?
You’re already on lemm.ee which is the second largest instance on the fediverse and generally tries as much as possible not to defederate from anyone, even these tankie instances
SDF - the one I’m on - is one of the few that won’t defederate any other instance on the ground that you can choose what to block yourself. That’s why I chose it. The flipside of SDF is that it’s regularly dog slow, and goes down more often that I would like. But I have other accounts on other instances when that happens. But those instances won’t show everything SDF shows.
…or you can host your own!
I am not really interested in becoming an IT guy.
I just wanted to get away from reddit, but i am starting to think Lemmy is both a little too complicated, and lacks the amount of users that made reddit interesting.
In general, you don’t need to worry about instances, provided you’re part of a decent one. You are, so you’re good. Stop worrying about it and enjoy the content.
Ha, yeah it’s not for everyone.