Hi, new user coming from Reddit, as many. Trying to orient with Lemmy, I realize that I still don’t understand the idea of instances well enough. Or maybe the fediverse. So there are plenty of instances, and each is supposed to be dedicated to a topic, but this is a very fluid definition. Anyhow, how do I search for instances? I mean, if I’m in Lemmy.world, I can click “instances” and I get the list of instances that are relevant. Sure, I can use google for that, but my logic tells me that there should be a more organic way.

And this leads to another question, how can I browses communities on other instances with my already existing account? What about platforms such as mastodon where I’m supposed to be able to browse and submit and such?

And finally, is there a search per community possibility?

Sorry, I’m still confused about these.

  • Kory@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hello and welcome!

    Your questions regarding the fediverse and lemmy in particular, I’d like to point you to https://lemmy.ml/post/1204463 and https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/introduction.html

    Your questions about how to find communities, I’d like to point you to the Lemmy Community Browser: https://browse.feddit.de/

    I also recommend reading through Lemmy Support since these questions have been covered a lot in the past couple of days and you will find many and more detailed answers there. I don’t mean to discourage you to ask questions though, but it will also help to make yourself familiar with the new platform.

    Enjoy your stay!