So, I got site-wide banned from reddit a while ago due to using the word “purge” on a post and since then I have been using Lemmy more and more. However, one thing that I have noticed is that Lemmy is less active than reddit.
For example, the most comments I have seen a post get is 200, where in reddit I’m confident it would get much more.
It makes no difference in your ability to access some amount of content, basically.
The “Fediverse” is like a collection of cities, most of them pretty small. “Federation” refers to the roads between them. When an instance federates with another, the users of each instance are allowed to view and comment on each other’s posts.
There are a few toxic circle-jerk communities no one federates with, like Truth Social, and there are a few gooey growths of bot-filled cancer, like Meta’s Threads, and there are nice instances like lemmy.ml or hexbear where it’s possible to have educational conversations.
(my vague grasp of federation, semantics may be wrong)