I am new and trying to understand how Lemmy works. I am posting this from my lemmy.world account, on a lemmy.ml community. It seems like you can read, post, subscribe to whatever community outside of the instance you’re registered with. So… Why register on lemmy.world vs lemmy.ml or any other instance, if all communities are accessible to everyone?
Rules. Community feel. Performance. Geographic location. Just off the top of my head.
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Currently… all very new and I’d say more like the latter. I’m not a lawyer, but I assume GDPR has exemptions for non-business ventures?
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GDPR compliance will only be an issue for EU based instances though I guess. Which rules mine out :)
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Hmm interesting. I guess this should go on the dev’s todo list, if its not already there.
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“The server I registered with might go down” was the reason I made my own instance instead of joining a public one. It was easy, and now I only have to trust myself that the server will stay online, and that the server is up to date and built from the GitHub source without modifications.
Right now, if lemmy.ml goes down, anyone who used that as their “home server” won’t be able to log in or interact with Lemmy. So, one factor you might want to think about when joining an instance (or running your own) is, “What’s their uptime like?”
In a few days, and then on July 1st, we’ll also get to ask, “How well did ___ handle the Reddit exodus?”
