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Adding to what the other guy said, you can think of Lemmy as a collection of servers. Right now you're on lemmy.ml, but some people are on https://beehaw.org/ for example. Beehaw is also Lemmy, but it's a different server with different users and communities.

Here's what makes the Fediverse cool though. You don't need to go there to interact with them. You can stay on lemmy.ml and access and comment on Beehaw. When you're on the home page it defaults to "Local", but if you click on "All" you can see posts from different servers. Same thing when you click on "Communities" at the top. It lets you browse communities on different servers by clicking "All".

Let's say you wanted to browse the gaming community on Beehaw. You can write "gaming" in the search field and find [email protected], or you can just type it into your search bar as https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]

Now you can browse, comment, vote, and interact with that community. I posted this comment from https://kbin.social/ , which is NOT Lemmy, but since the Fediverse is connected we can basically interact with each other from different websites.

Reddit is like going to Chucky Cheese for your birthday. It’s fun, but it feels a little forced and ultimately the point is for Chucky Cheese to sell you terrible pizza.

Lemmy is like being left alone during summer vacation with nothing to do and one of your friends hands out walkie-talkies and you all hang around the neighborhood and make a game of stalking the mail carrier and there’s absolutely no point but afterwards you get real pizza at Salvatore’s.

It's Reddit but federated. A federated service is one that works like e-mail, i.e. there are multiple providers/servers/instances but all of them are connected so it doesn't matter which one you choose. Additionally, Lemmy is federated to other services (e.g. Mastodon), forming what's known as the Fediverse.

@Senseibull
You can think of it like emails.

A lemmy community is like an automated mailbox that sends everything they receive to all subscribers.

You can host a mailing list/community on gmail.

Then you can subscribe to the mailing list from outlook.

Then a user can send a post to the mailing list from yahoo.

The automated mailbox at gmail will receive the message from yahoo and send it to outlook and all other subscribers.

The best way i can describe it is with Runescape. Users can access different worlds(or "instances") and every world runs the game. However unlike runescape every world is independently run and which world you form your account on determines which other worlds you can see and interact with.

This video applies to Mastodon, but Lemmy is also using the activity pub protocol https://40two.tube/w/8a203465-b443-44bb-90a5-7cf5d941899a So in the principle it should be relatively similar

New mod here. What's the best way to use mod tools? There doesn't seem to be anything in Jerboa, so is it best to use the web browser?

There was a good discussion of this topic in another post recently. Here's the comment I posted trying to cover some of the fundamentals: https://lemmy.world/comment/20357. But the whole post is pretty helpful.

You will have a honest answer on /r/lemmy

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