I've been hearing that Meta (Facebook) intends to join the fediverse. I have some very big concerns about that, as do apparently many others. There exists a group of instances called the fedipact which will not be federating with Meta, and I was wondering if this instance would be joining. So there is no ambiguity with this post: I have no desire to participate in any instance that is federated with Facebook, and will kindly pass on another Eternal September. Hope that doesn't come off as aggressive, that's just where I'm at.

Do I need to be on a different server?

I'm trying to subscribe to communities in other instances but they falsely appear empty. It is not a matter of languages as I see some people suggesting. I have tried choosing English as well as Undetermined without success. Other communities in the same instances appear as they should, without any issues. I have tried from different browsers and even without logging in, fresh browser window, with cleared cache, I open Vlemmy, search for those communities without logging in and I get the same issue. Communities belong to different instances, I can access everything through Lemmy.world although said communities are not in Lemmy.world

One of the things that I like about lemmy (as a reddfugee and member for 3 weeks) is that you can see the amount of upvotes vs downvotes a post has, rather than the aggregate score. It makes sense to me to have them separate.

I’m using Memmy and the experience here is calmer and slower paced than reddit, as well as a better overall vibe. It doesn’t work as smoothly as reddit via Apollo, but I don’t feel I have lost anything.

I’m new to Lemmy and getting to grips with it all. I’ve found a community !education@lemmy.world using the aggregator lists in the starting guide. However if I use wefwef app or vlemmy in browser the search isn’t seeing this community so I can’t join. Am I doing something wrong?

Every time I try to change my avatar on vlemmy I get this error:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Is this issue known, is it widespread, and is there a workaround to get the avatar working?

I have been a lurker of Reddit site from the 3rd Party app 'Infinity for Reddit' for more than a year. I always avoided signing up on the site as the main purpose was to consume interactively and not to interact.

Now that the site is killing all 3rd party apps, I'm doing my part by signing up here and increasing the activity on Lemmy to support the cause of federated social media; which to me is the future of the internet. It is free, without any ads/trackers and most importantly it is being expanded by users who want to involve in genuine conversations without the muddiness of paid/promoted contents.

It is my request to other lurkers to join lemmy instances and be the part of the process which defines the future.

I'm new to fediverse and lemmy stuff and when I made my account, I didn't know this but I saw a yt video today which showed that the instance I've registered with, can block another instance and I cannot interact with that instance as well. Is that true? That seems like more control over what I see than reddit itself. I don't want to be controlled by someone else's ideologies and opinions. And I hope that's not the case. I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding something but this is important to me