Hello, I’m sorry in advance if this is a noob question. I am new to Lemmy and the Fediverse.
As far as I understand, Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, but if I search for “Lemmy” here it will not find it. It seems to be full of instances from Mastodon.
Can someone help me understand why Lemmy isn’t there? Thank you!
There are heaps! Personally I feel Mastodon is the only one that could be considered in any way mature, but it’s just not something I can get into.
Lemmy has been great with all these new users (not so great prior), but it’s still pretty janky if we’re being honest.
I quite like Bookwyrm as well (a sort of fediverse Goodreads), and use it for tracking what I’m reading. But the federation of reviews doesn’t work quite how I (or they) would prefer. Plenty of content on the flagship instance bookwyrm.social, though I’m not sure how well it works trying to connect from other services. I just have a bookwyrm-specific account for that, though in theory you could use your lemmy account to connect I guess.
There’s also a facebook-like one called Friendica, but honesty until you can upload videos seamlessly I just can’t see it being used by the general public. You basically have to upload videos to youtube (or peertube) and link them. Because of a lack of users, most fediverse sites seem to assume posts will be public. I just can’t see friendica being adopted mainstream until I can upload videos of my kids for family to see without having to put them another site for the world to see.