With all the new users coming to Lemmy, myself included, I thought we could pin an FAQ to this community.
Here are a few questions that I’ve seen floating about the last few days. If anyone would like to take a stab at answering them in the comments, I’ll edit the post and add them here.
- What is Lemmy?
- How does Lemmy compare to Reddit?
- What does federated mean?
- Does it matter what instance I make an account on and what are the implications?
- Can I transfer my account to another instance in the future?
- If my instance shuts down, what happens to my posts, comments, messages, history, etc?
- How does moderation work?
- Are bots allowed?
- Are there Android and iOS apps?
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What else?
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- why can my instance sometimes not find a community that I know exists (if you look at its home instance)?
- [federation] how can I follow a Lemmy community from <other fediverse platform> and what will that look like? can I respond from <other>, what does THAT look like on Lemmy and vice versa?
- [federation] can I search/follow users/hashtags in other fediverse platforms on Lemmy?
[meta]
- where do I go with questions?
- is there a community search engine? Y: https://browse.feddit.de/
- is there a community listing? Y: each instance has one of course, “Communities” at the top, but !lemmy411@lemmy.ca is trying to compile one and has it stickied.
- is there a list of instances?
- how do I find my instances admin?
- how do I find a communities moderators?
