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To avoid hosting duplicate communities across instances and curate this instance a bit, I've restricted the creation of communities.

However, you are free to request one and if it more or less fits the theme described in the sidebar, or if you want a geographic community that isn't represented elsewhere, I'll be happy to create one.

Hello! I'm glad you made it here.

As you may have already gathered, Lemmy is an open-source news aggregator that works similarly to Reddit and other sites, with the key difference that it utilizes federation. Instead of a single entity controlling the entire system centrally, there are several distinct nodes that are networked with each other using the ActivityPub protocol. This means that you're able to sign up on one server, then visit and contribute to communities on other servers.

All this happens without having to leave the site you create your account on. For example, I am able to visit /c/lotrmemes, hosted on midwest.social, as if it was part of this instance.

You might have noticed that the front page is somewhat bare-bones at the moment. This is because the 'local' tab only shows communities hosted on this instance. However, if you click the 'all' tab you will see communities on other federated instances that you'll be able to contribute to. When you subscribe to one of them, they will show up on the local feed as well.

Therefore it is not necessary to use the larger Lemmy instances for the full experience, in fact the creators of Lemmy discourage doing so. To distribute the load, it makes sense to create an account on smaller instances, like this one.

http://info.cern.ch/ for more info

Basically title.

I'm able to post something on my instance and access it directly through the link, but I won't be able to see it on the front page. However, it does appear in a private window.

This link appears to me, logged in, as follows:

Is there a setting or something that is causing this? I've previously posted something that did appear, in a community I've since purged, but yet another post does not.

Apologies if there's an obvious way to do it, but I couldn't find it. Is there a way to remove communities using the web interface, without having to touch the server?