The Reddit UI is so good though. I love browsing an album and accidentally sliding over to r/popular. Why can't Lemmy ask me to confirm my email account every time I try to look at porn?

I think He's doing a lot of work in Asia now. Probably done with the westerners. They had their chance LOL

we need more of these people more or less, even though yes, they're dumb, that's like.. most of the population when it comes to the internet (like, only the young people even know of reddit here, much less use it..) and then there's the specific niches that are barely living in lemmy.. ah, end users..

why am i being called out here

Bro is right

I didn't experience that but I haven't tried it out for quite a long time, will do! & Thanks!

Nice analogy, I might repost this to !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Fediverse is like a country

I might even go one level up. The Fedeverse is like a network of connected countries like the EU.

Platforms like Reddit or Twitter are isolated countries like North Korea.

I'm glad I found my way out.

Good.

The barrier to entry is a feature! All those fools on FB and Reddit are there because they're told there's no friction. It's the internet version of Wal-Mart. Anyone can find their way in.

I want to hang with people who are at least smart enough to tie their shoes sign up for a Costco membership. It's a LOW barrier to entry, and that's more than enough.

Hypothetical response:

"Sure, that's an option, but no other social media I use requires a routinely read regarding whether I need to backup my saved items because it might shut down."

Let me just be clear that I personally don't have a problem with how lemmy runs, but I do think that difficulties and issues are heavily downplayed for potential users.

They are two completely different communities that just happen to share their names. (And one of them is full of tankies, while yours isn't)

How this works is the same with email: You can have john.smith@gmail.zz and you can have john.smith@outlook.com , but although those do have the same first name, the two addresses do not point to the same mailbox.

If a community is on your own instance (servers are called instances on Lemmy), then the part after @ is not shown. So, there is asklemmy@lemmy.world, and there is asklemmy@lemmy.ml. The latter one is luckily empty, as nothing on .ml is written without serious brainrot.

The one you see only as "asklemmy" is asklemmy@lemmy.world.
There are actually this many asklemmys:

Each of the above is an independent community. Each one was founded by a different person and has different moderators, etc.

When you login to Lemmy, you go to lemmy.world and login there.
I don't. I do not have a user account on lemmy.world, which is one of the instances (servers) for Lemmy.
However, I do have a user account on sopuli.xyz, which is another instance. When I log in to that, I can read anything written on any instances that have federated with sopuli.xyz. We are having this conversation in a community on yet another instance:

As you can see there, this community is located on an instance called lemmy.uk.

So, I am reading this through sopuli.xyz, which has a connection to lemmy.uk. When I write something, Sopuli sends all the text to lemmy.uk which then saves it. And then your instance, lemmy.world, has a connection to lemmy.uk as well, and shows you whatever is shown on that instance. When a Lemmy-instance creates such a connection to another instance, it is called federating.

The nice thing about this construction is that if someone tries taking over Lemmy, they only take over their own instance. Its users can just migrate to another instance, create an account there and continue almost as if nothing had happened. And if some instance is not moderating its users' activities properly, other instances can defederate from it. That means: They can stop showing their users content from the badly behaving instance, and also the users from that instance won't see anything held on the other instance.

I hope this blabbering helped!

Yes, "instance" is the word used on Lemmy for what is usually called "server" elsewhere.

If one user of your instance is subscribed to a community on another instance, then that community is visible on that instance as well.

I have no idea but every once in a while they’re interesting.

You’re right. Bringing it up to the country level instead of towns probably fits better.

Seems like a sound though-process

The fediverse is big enough for everyone, and unless there's ill-intent or something damaging in a user/instance, I don't see any point with excluding them. All this would do is limit growth, and may actually be the attitude that let's it shrink into a slow death.

If you don't like a user or instance, block them and go about your business.

As someone said in another comment “you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you’re still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you’ll fucking starve to death?”

i think we'd heard about a second coming by now

also that's some typical absentee landlord behavior

Yep. It's a good analogy. I'm not sure that this is the kind of argument which will get sceptics aboard, but I like it.