I’m still trying to get used to Lemmy; the main thing confusing me is the federated bit.

I just want to access Lemmy and its content; how do I do that? Currently I’m just going to old.lemmy.world and using that as a starting point.

Is there another instance you would recommend as the default one?

The two main reasons I ask are:

  1. I want to know if there are things I am simply missing out on and there’s a better way to browse Lemmy.

  2. I really don’t like cloudflare and have it disabled in Javascript. I don’t want to leave it enabled for lemmy.world.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago
    1. Yes, you need a new account
    2. Not sure, maybe there is a setting
    3. Federation makes it possible to interact with lemmy.world from slrpnk.net
    • mehquestion@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      I apologize, I have another follow up question (again all stemming from failing to grasp an intuitive understanding of federation) to point 1.

      I’m fairly sure I was able to sign on lemmy.cafe and make a post in a community over there.

      Basically I am trying to understand why was I able to do that there and not at slrpnk.net. Is it something unique to lemmy.cafe? Something unique to slrpnk.net?

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        7 days ago

        Pretty sure you misremember, as Lemmy.cafe also requires registration to be used. There are some independant frontends (web-clients) that can be used with different Lemmy instances, but for password security reasons I strongly recommend to only use the ones hosted by the instance you have your account on, because otherwise you are basically sharing your password with whoever runs that frontend.

        • mehquestion@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          18 hours ago

          Two things, you were right; my misunderstanding was due to my failure to have an intuitive understanding of defederation.

          What happened was that I signed on in lemmy.world to make a post on lemmy.cafe (through lemmy.world).

          My second question: I tried all weekend to access old.slrpnk.net

          But the site was either really really slow (like a page would pop up after a minute or two) or would just result in an error.

          Is this a problem on my end? Or is something going on that should be sorted out soonish?

          Thanks again and keep up the good work.

          • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            18 hours ago

            Yeah, there is some issue on our end, but sadly it isn’t clear what might be causing it.

    • mehquestion@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      Another stupid follow up question (related to 2.)

      How did you see this post?

      In other words, exactly how do I get lemmy.world content on slrpnk.net?

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        Lemmy.world sends your post to slrpnk.net if someone there is subscribed to this community and thus I can see it in my client just as any other local post.