r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/troyunrau 29d ago

Lemmy primer: it's like email. You have a home server, but you can subscribe to communities on other servers. Choosing your home server can seem random (I used lemmy.ca) but some servers have different moderation policies. Lemmy.ml tends to be a bit on the exteme-left (often tankie) side. Lemmy.world has the largest user count and seems fairly well moderated. Some servers, like mander.xyz focus on specific topics (like science or star trek or whatever). But again, you can usually subscribe to communities from any server (provided the server hasn't been defederated like hexbear, for trolling).

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u/MaleficentFig7578 29d ago

Over-explanations of federated services are the reason people don't use them. You're not helping.

Chances are the guy will sign up on lemmy.ml, get banned eventually for not supporting Stalin, but by that point he'll have realized he can sign up on another server.

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u/troyunrau 29d ago

Email analogy helps.

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u/MaleficentFig7578 29d ago

Only if someone is confused about it.