So apologies if this is a stupid question as I’m new to Lemmy. Came from Reddit. I moved to lemmy.world and have noticed that lemmy.ml has been popping up as another featured instance. What differs from lemmy.world vs lemmy.ml? Is .ml more active?
Part of why I ask this is because I downloaded the lemmur client on my phone and it defaults to lemmy.ml. (Yes I’m aware that app is no longer being maintained)
Again apologies for the stupid question.
Lemmy users can’t currently follow other users, only “groups” (Lemmy “communities”, Friendica “forums”, kbin “magazines”, Chirp “groups”, Guppe “groups”, and PeerTube “channels”), which means you can’t interact with other fediverse users outside of a group. Mastodon users can post to Lemmy communities (or these other group types), and comment on existing posts, and Lemmy users can interact freely with them within that context.
I haven’t heard anything about that changing, though the number of Lemmy users has expanded by several orders of magnitude these last two weeks, and so I imagine the number of contributors to the project will also increase and expand the roadmap somewhat.
On the flip side, kbin users CAN follow other users. Kbin has a feed like Lemmy, but also the “microblog” which is basically tweets. You can link the microblog to Mastodon servers and follow and interact with users from that platform as well. Mastodon, Lemmy and kbin are all different technologies that are allowed to interact with each other, and we as users get to pick the ones that best fit our needs. It really is an amazing concept