The easiest way to explain it is that the instances have no native ability to crawl other instances for communities or content. For all intents and purposes, a fresh Lemmy server is on an island and all other instances are their own island until someone builds a bridge to them.

The ability of an instance to receive content is dependent on the subscriptions users add to the database. Once the instance is aware of these other places it will begin checking them for updates and you'll see them regularly whether you interact with them or not.

This goes completely against what the average person is expecting and causes a lot of confusion.

What censorship?

Russell and Verstappen

Yes

Private in the sense of limited visibility and access to prevent things like harassment and brigading, not private in the sense you're thinking. This is not a security feature, it's an asshole prevention feature.

There's nothing wrong with this approach either but I'd remind you and anyone else seeking this experience that Lemmy is infinitely more customizable for this than reddit ever was. The ability to block users, communities, instances, etc can be invaluable. Some instances also don't federate with everyone so it's fairly easy to find a smaller space that isn't so busy if the larger instances are too much.

Lemmy gets a lot of shit, and deservedly so at times, but there are already some very handy tools in the kit for curating your feed to your liking.

Guys it's starting to seem like America loves proxy wars or something.

Disclaimer: I'm not a biologist and just make stuff up from what I remember from high school biology, and it was last millennium!

If only the rest of the world was so honest!

Thanks for the community link!

I believe that's currently a brick, the inevitable fate of every cybertruck

On today's episode of things clowns say, MBS.

That was a big one, happy to see him get out under his own power and walk away.

Perez hasn't had a day that mattered in so long he's forgotten what day actually matters. The real challenge is tomorrow.