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
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    9 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·
      3 days 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·
        3 days ago

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