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What instance of Lemmy would you recommend to use, lemmy world or something else? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by mehquestion@lemmy.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Our https://old.slrpnk.net/ should currently work without any javascript, but we might have to add additional anti-scraper protection in the future if Iocaine becomes ineffective against an aggressive scraper.

[–] orvorn@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago

Highly recommend slrpnk as an instance! I've had a great experience.

[–] mehquestion@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Thanks, this seems like a good option. I appreciate teh old.reddit like interface that old.lemmy.world also has

Two comments

  1. I can't log in with this account to slrpnk.net. Should I create a new account, or am I doing something wrong?

  2. A very minor minor comment; one thing I don't like about old.slrpnk.net & old.lemmy.world, is the site by default loads to hot posts. I found the active tab to be far more interesting; there is more engaging discussion that I can learn from. If perhaps due to a cookie setting or something, the site could default to the active tab; I (and possibly others) will appreciate it.

  3. I know I said 2, but I'm still struggling to understand the concept of instances. So slrpnk.net is a separate world from Lemmy.world right? Can I engage in lemmy.world's content or no?

[–] mschae@discuss.mschae23.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  1. A very minor minor comment; one thing I don't like about old.slrpnk.net & old.lemmy.world, is the site by default loads to hot posts. I found the active tab to be far more interesting; there is more engaging discussion that I can learn from. If perhaps due to a cookie setting or something, the site could default to the active tab; I (and possibly others) will appreciate it.

You can set this on the preferences page :)

[–] mehquestion@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Oh man thank you so much on both fronts (for your other post also)

Small simple things that make the entire thing so much easier

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)
  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.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.net 4 points 4 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.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.net 2 points 4 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.