Reddit is starting to suck more and more everyday so here I am. A couple of questions -

  1. I created my account at lemmy.ca, but most people I have seen have lemmy.world accounts. Am I missing out on anything by not having a lemmy.world account?

  2. Reddit has an offical subreddit for Reddit news. Does Lemmy have any offical communities?

  3. On Reddit, you can’t post on some subreddits if you do not have enough karma or if your account is not old enough. Are there any rules like that on Lemmy?

Thank you!

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Am I missing out on anything by not having a lemmy.world account?

    Not really. If you’re new it’s fine to pick an instance based on location, or even at random; in fact it’s better than if you went to lemmy.world (nothing against that instance, it’s just a bit too big already). Later on you want to look for things like:

    • do I trust the admins?
    • do I like its rules?
    • am I OK with the list of instances that my home instance federates or not with?
    • if you’re planning to create a community, can you host it there?

    and if you deem appropriate you go to another instance. Or just use multiple accounts, like I do.

    Reddit has a offical subreddit for Reddit news, Are there any offical communities for Lemmy?

    Plenty instances have their own “meta” communities for official news and the likes. But there isn’t one for the whole of the “Threadiverse” (Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin side of the Fediverse), or even for all “Lemmy instances” - because no group controls the whole.

    Check [email protected] for the software itself.

    You can’t post on some subreddits on Reddit if you do not have enough karma or if your account is not old enough. Are there any such rules like that on Lemmy?

    So far as I know no community here prevents your participation based on account age. And global karma doesn’t exist here.