I’ve been looking for a free Reddit alternative and preferably one that was federated. I’m not really sure how federation works with this though. A lot of similar sites are just personal projects that people made as a hobby that lack a lot of important features or the interface was really ugly.
I haven’t seen how to moderate communities though but the Github page says this can be done, which I consider important since I want moderation to be done by communities and users rather then admins. If there’s a quarantine feature similar to Reddit that would be useful too so I don’t just have to ban communities.
Same here! I actually like how small this community is. But I still find it hard to wrap my head around the whole “federated” part. I het that I could message other users on other sites and instances of the fediverse, but how would I follow them, or subscibe to content that is not on this site? Or is that not part of this?
For now federation is only between different Lemmy instances
Oh I see
I have created a post in Fediverse Futures to address Ideas for federating Lemmy to the Fediverse. It is a brainstorm area, so feel free to add your thoughts on what Lemmy should offer :)
Here is a federated community: !communism@lemmygrad.ml. Just click on it, then you can subscribe, vote, comment etc.
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I see, so since all the lemmy instances are federated, I could visit all of them and subsribe to different communities, right?
Yes, just paste the url of a community, post etc into the search bar of your own instance to interact with it.