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Is it just me or is Lemmy less active than reddit? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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So, I got site-wide banned from reddit a while ago due to using the word "purge" on a post and since then I have been using Lemmy more and more. However, one thing that I have noticed is that Lemmy is less active than reddit.

For example, the most comments I have seen a post get is 200, where in reddit I'm confident it would get much more.

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[โ€“] 17 points 3 months ago (6 children)

The userbase is different, plus you're on Lemmy.world, which is defederated from active communist instances like Hexbear.net.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 7 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I'm new to this whole "federation" thing. When I joined Lemmy I just followed a guide where it said it made no difference which instance I made my account in. Is that not true?

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It's only true in that you can interact with other federated instances on any federated account, but not all instances are federated with every instance. I can see Hexbear.net just fine from here, as can I see Lemmygrad.ml, but you will never see them from Lemmy.world accounts.

    There's also the fact that many instances vary in how they run things, what their local sort is like, etc.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Ngl, that sounds needlessly complicated. Anyway, thank you for your answer.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 3 months ago

    its not, really. and its something you get used to and come to appreciate.

    the city analogy is a great one - every town has its own flavor. many towns build roads (federation) between them so all inhabitants can easily travel to each other... as a city.

    some towns self-isolate or are isolated from other towns (defederated) for all sorts of reasons and, if you want to see what they have to offer, you can set up a house directly in that town or another town with a road to (federated with) that town. it really does allow some very cool places to thrive - like the internet was before it was purchased.

    lemmy{dot}.world chooses to keep things pretty... bland? thats their right, but there is quite a bit of quality spiciness out there if you have a house in a well connected (widely federated) town or decide to set up a few additional houses in some of the more exotic towns.

    does anyone have a federation graph up and running right now? should be easy-ish based on instance published federation lists.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 3 months ago

    It makes no difference in your ability to access some amount of content, basically.

    The "Fediverse" is like a collection of cities, most of them pretty small. "Federation" refers to the roads between them. When an instance federates with another, the users of each instance are allowed to view and comment on each other's posts.

    There are a few toxic circle-jerk communities no one federates with, like Truth Social, and there are a few gooey growths of bot-filled cancer, like Meta's Threads, and there are nice instances like lemmy.ml or hexbear where it's possible to have educational conversations.

    (my vague grasp of federation, semantics may be wrong)

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