In essence, what woud you say lemmy is? A way to have all your old forum subscriptions in one place in the form of communies?

Or is there something else I’m missing?

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It’s like Reddit, as an link aggregator (Wikipedia said “social news aggregation […] website”), but federated (in the Fediverse), as in it is not centralized and built upon many instances of Lemmy, not just one centralized website like Reddit.

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A miserable pile of content.

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Fundamentally it’s Reddit but distributed.

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@Lmaydev I love the federation part of it, though. Shouldn’t lemmy be more like stack exchange, then?

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In its use it’s practically exactly the same as Reddit. I would say it’s format is taken pretty much as is from Reddit.

The difference is the instances. Now instead of just reddit.com we have a series of websites each with their own admins.

This adds a new dimension to it’s ecosystem and lots of new drama. But to most users makes very little difference.

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Maybe I should have been on Reddit first to really understand it.

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