They’re only “really cool” because the ml admins are so heavy handed with moderation. From the outside looking in, it looks like calm waters. But dig into the modlog, and you’ll quickly discover that it’s only calm because the admins only leave a very small and tightly controlled window for discourse.

TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 133d (2 replies)

Except those of us who are Marxist Leninists :p

(not that I am lol)

foggianism@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 133d (1 reply)

... or car enthusiast (Meecedes Benz ML)

TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 133d

Machine Learning?

SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 133d (2 replies)

Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 132d (1 reply)

Not you, you're cool

SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 132d

GatekeeperOnTurdMountain@programming.dev · -6 pts · 133d (1 reply)

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GandalfsPipe09@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 133d (3 replies)

I have no idea what I’m doing and I’m not having a good time but I am indeed here

OpenStars@piefed.social · 3 pts · 132d

I am sorry to hear that. PieFed has way better onboarding tools, see e.g. https://piefed.zip/ - even if you want to keep your current account, you can still use that PieFed instance to discover communities and content that you will enjoy.

mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 132d (1 reply)

Well you got an account made, and that’s a start! Lemmy’s UI may feel familiar if you’re an old.reddit user. There are apps like Voyager that feel like spiritual successors to AlienBlue and Apollo, so if you used those apps before they were killed, you’ll feel right at home.

The best way I’ve seen to describe the platform is to think of it like email. An @gmail account can send email to an @yahoo account just fine. The specific platform is agnostic because they all use the same email backend. That’s essentially how federation works, with a bunch of different servers/instances agreeing to use the same data sharing backend.

So you’re on lemmy.zip, so you’ll be able to see and interact with any instances that lemmy.zip is federated with. Federation is simply the decision to actively share that data. And defederation is when a server chooses not to share data with another instance. One of the biggest impacts your server choice makes is which instances it is federated/defederated with. That will determine which communities you can access, as you’ll only be able to see communities on local or federated instances.

The one big caveat is that defederating from an instance won’t stop you seeing posts from those users on another instance. For example, I’m on dbzer0. Let’s say dbzer0 and zip decide to defederate. You’d stop seeing communities on dbzer0, and vice versa. But if I posted to lemmy.world, you’d be able to see my post as long as you’re still federated with lemmy.world. The third instance (lemmy.world, in this example) essentially acts as a proxy to allow both to see each other. So defederation isn’t the same thing as a filter or block, as it only stops you from seeing things that are posted on that defederated instance.

GandalfsPipe09@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 132d

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Shindo66@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 133d

Dozens!

Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 133d

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W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 132d