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Is it just me or is Lemmy less active than reddit?
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this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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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)