The instance is just your provider, similar to an email provider. Yours is lemm.ee.
There are a lot of apps because it’s an open platform and people have a lot of good ideas about how to best organize things. Voyager is one of the best in terms of popularity, development, and ease of use. Stick with it for a while. Check out [email protected] in the meantime to see what’s going on with different apps.
Local vs federated communities are basically the same for starters, but you will eventually come across some technical differences that may be interesting or relevant to you in the future. Most instances are general purpose, so use the global feed for now.
Follow Communities that sound interesting. Use the sort function to see what’s hot or scaled (popular wrt size of community) to see what’s going on and discover new things.
The instance is just your provider, similar to an email provider. Yours is lemm.ee.
There are a lot of apps because it’s an open platform and people have a lot of good ideas about how to best organize things. Voyager is one of the best in terms of popularity, development, and ease of use. Stick with it for a while. Check out [email protected] in the meantime to see what’s going on with different apps.
Local vs federated communities are basically the same for starters, but you will eventually come across some technical differences that may be interesting or relevant to you in the future. Most instances are general purpose, so use the global feed for now.
Follow Communities that sound interesting. Use the sort function to see what’s hot or scaled (popular wrt size of community) to see what’s going on and discover new things.
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