Unlike Reddit, which is a for-profit company. Lemmy servers are set up by individuals or groups of individuals for the benefit of the community at large, and donations pay for the server costs.
And I like to think of instances as countries. Each instance has its own rules and culture, and that affects how the communities are moderated. For example, the beehaw.org instance is heavily moderated compared to lemmy.world. Continuing with our example, the Technology community on beehaw.org will be moderated differently than the Technlology community on Lemmy.world.
So each instance has its own reason for existing. Another example will be https://lemmynsfw.com/ which is an 18+ instance. Basically, when you register in an instance, you become a citizen of that country.
Because the point of this is to be decentralized so that one company cannot control the “site”. Servers can federate with each other allowing a larger “site”. If you don’t like one alérgico server for whatever reason you can defederate them which means you no longer see their content as part of your “site”.
I’m curious, what are different instances for If they can interact with each other anyway?
Unlike Reddit, which is a for-profit company. Lemmy servers are set up by individuals or groups of individuals for the benefit of the community at large, and donations pay for the server costs.
And I like to think of instances as countries. Each instance has its own rules and culture, and that affects how the communities are moderated. For example, the beehaw.org instance is heavily moderated compared to lemmy.world. Continuing with our example, the Technology community on beehaw.org will be moderated differently than the Technlology community on Lemmy.world.
So each instance has its own reason for existing. Another example will be https://lemmynsfw.com/ which is an 18+ instance. Basically, when you register in an instance, you become a citizen of that country.
Thank you, that explains it quite well.
This might help: https://lemmy.world/post/37906
Thanks, very usedful
Because the point of this is to be decentralized so that one company cannot control the “site”. Servers can federate with each other allowing a larger “site”. If you don’t like one alérgico server for whatever reason you can defederate them which means you no longer see their content as part of your “site”.
Idk why you deleted, but that makes sense, thank you
It had a bad typo and I couldn’t find the edit button. But glad that helped.