You sign up on (or create) an instance that defederates from them.

I’ve found that similar communities on different instances can have VERY different experiences in terms of the community and attitude. I know I’m generalizing, but I feel a lot of Lemmy.world instances are more negative and hostile than similar instances on beehaw.org. Personally, I’d rather they stay separate. That way I can be more precise on dialing in the experience I want.

Yes! This is what I’m referring to.

I’ve pretty much completely left Reddit since Apollo shut down. I’m happy with Lemmy, so far, except I’m honestly getting tired of the somewhat elitist attitude and fear/anger towards anything that isn’t in the fediverse. I noticed it when I left Twitter for Mastodon too, and it’s kind of getting old.

I’m not saying some of what’s being said isn’t justified, it’s just not what I feel like seeing every time I open the app/site.

Got it. Thanks!

I am in the beta, and I am using compact mode. Is the bookmark button only available on the larger mode?

I’ve been keeping all the various Lemmy apps in a folder on my home screen and switching between them to get a feel for them all. So far, I haven’t found any that are perfect (nor would I expect to this early on), but Memmy is definitely up there.

Do you have any more details on this (or know where I can find more). I’m currently trying to decide which Lemmy app to use, and would be interested in reading more about Mlem’s history.