I’m so confused, I don’t even know where to ask this stuff. Here are my questions, hopefully it helps others in the future:

  1. I see a bunch of different “Lemmy’s” here. What are these called? “Flavors” of lemmy? Lemmy “websites”? Lemmy “instances”?

note: I’ll call their collective entirety as “Lemmies”, for the remainder of the post

  1. If I created an account here on lemmy.ml, (obamacares), does that account also exist on other “Lemmies”?

  2. Do posts and comments on this Lemmy also exist on other Lemmies?

  3. If one happens to be banned from a specific Lemmy instance: does one also get banned from other Lemmies?

  4. In case the answers to the past 3 questions was “No”: then what is the relationship between the different “Lemmies”?

  5. How are those Lemmy websites stored and served? Is it just a machine the person who created the website maintains — or is there more to it? (some kind of decentralized collaborative server pool, or some blockchain stuff, idk)

  6. How much “privacy” can I expect inside these Lemmies? For instance, if I talk to some user through dm’s, can anyone else see our messages?

  7. If I delete a post or comment: is it gone for good — or will it linger for the eternity in some internet server somewhere?

I probably have more questions, but I forgot now.

  • CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.ml
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    23 days ago

    I also have a question about this. Whenever i open some post and it has a dozen or more comments, its usually hidden. The only fix i have found for this is to click chat and sort by new and old, but often some comments dont show up and you have to guess who replied to who etc. Is there a reason for this? And is there a fix for this?

    • Nutomic@lemmy.mlM
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      23 days ago

      Does this also happen when you browse without login? Could be from user blocks, language settings or similar.

      • CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        23 days ago

        i figured it out thanks to you. in the settings i selected english instead of unrecognized. i had unrecognized selected because it said that if you deselect unrecognized most of the content would not appear, but when i selected english i could see every comment. someone really needs to remove that tip in the comments lol

        • Nutomic@lemmy.mlM
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          22 days ago

          You can select multiple language items, although the UI is a bit confusing now. It will be clearer in the next Lemmy version.