Hi, new user coming from Reddit, as many. Trying to orient with Lemmy, I realize that I still don't understand the idea of instances well enough. Or maybe the fediverse. So there are plenty of instances, and each is supposed to be dedicated to a topic, but this is a very fluid definition. Anyhow, how do I search for instances? I mean, if I'm in Lemmy.world, I can click "instances" and I get the list of instances that are relevant. Sure, I can use google for that, but my logic tells me that there should be a more organic way.
And this leads to another question, how can I browses communities on other instances with my already existing account? What about platforms such as mastodon where I'm supposed to be able to browse and submit and such?
And finally, is there a search per community possibility?
Sorry, I'm still confused about these.
Your mailbox is lemmy.world You log into lemmy.world You send emails from lemmy.world You read the emails you receive on lemmy.world
The only website you ever use is lemmy.world (gmail in the analogy)
Outlook.com, gmail.com, protonmail.com so on, they're all examples of singular 'instances' of e-mail. Lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are examples of lemmy 'instances'. You choose one instance, and that's the one you use for all your communication. There are apps available, but they still communicate through your instance, similar to e-mail apps built-in in phones.
Not sure how else to phrase it. I'm sure someone else can do it better than me though.
I still haven't figured this out.