Yep it is.

“I’m from India and the word “commie” in my country is referred as a far left,”

Communism is its own thing. Whilst its not exactly inaccurate to describe it as far left, there are also lots of far left people who are not Communists.

“Why? Do they ban you if you fight like a redditor in the comments?”

That depends on the Community (subreddit) you’re in and the instance you’re using. They might, they might not. But the reason I said it is because people joining Lemmy solely in order to get into fights with people is not what Lemmy needs.

Tenacity is a decent (not perfect) Audacity replacement.

Lemmy is a piece of software. Its two main developers are communists. The software runs on many different servers (instances) that are mostly not communist and the two developers do not enforce any political ideology on the use or users of Lemmy (and couldn’t even if they wanted to, which they clearly don’t). There are two or three instances that are communist.

That said, if you’re from the USA I’d hazard a guess that the word ‘commie’ to you is probably a person slightly to the left of Bill Clinton. At the moment, the entirety of Lemmy does lean slightly left and is generally progressive which is a refreshing change to the constant brain numbing right wing shitholes most mainstream social media sites are.

I’d urge you to not go looking for a fight. Just ignore, block and move on. This isn’t reddit.

I think, as well as the issues you mention, another issue might possibly be duplication. Historically, search engines penalise duplicated content, even across different domains and federation kind of bakes that in.

She is a successful author. She’s never been a great author. Great authors know how to write with originality and imagination. JKR merely took a handful of fantasy and British empire tropes, put them in a blender with ideas ‘inspired’ by vastly better writers and with the help of a PR team, created a marketable franchise.

Along the way, she became consumed by an utterly irrational hatred which is now creating a horrific world for the people she targeted with her marketing money.

Thanks?

" I asked a simple question…"

Without knowing what community it was and what the exact question was, I’m not sure what you’re expecting me to say about that.

There’s a reason they’re called ‘communities’ on Lemmy. What you see as a bubble, other see as a place of refuge where they’re not going to be attacked by people ‘just asking questions’.

Which is why I said I was aware the use case is different. I’m also not sure Element is trying to be a paragon of security. As I understand it, their focus is on privacy.

You’ve got to let him find his own way. Please don’t take this as overly-critical but you do come off as sounding more like his parent than his partner. I totally get wanting to make things as easy as possible for him but you can still do that if you’re a year ahead of him. And he gets the opportunity to find his feet by himself - I’m sure he’d ask you if he needed help and you giving him space also tells him that you believe in him.

Could be argued that Lemmy does too. I realise the use case is different but the risk feels similar. You can sign up with a anonymous username, your phone number isn’t exposed and some Matrix instances don’t even require an email (and if they do you can use an anonymising service). Its not great, I agree, but its also not that bad either.

My issue with Element X (and the reason I’m still using Element) is that X doesn’t (yet) support Spaces. Again, not a huge issue, but annoying enough to stop me switching.

But its impossible to not notice! Or find aggravating!

Probably been tariffed by Trump.

Each instance usually (but not always) represents a cultural group so if one group considers themselves unsafe around a different cultural group defederation is a good way to protect their users. Thats not breaking the intent of federation but a usable feature of it There’s nothing to stop any user who feels stymied by their home instances federation policy from either creating a second account elsewhere or moving their existing one.

I’m not 100% sure what Lemmy Explorer is…but assuming its a tool to help you find communities?

If thats so, just make a note of the community address, switch back to your logged in account and search for that community whilst logged in to your piefed.social account

I know this all feels disorientating and needlessly confusing but its worth it. Stick with it and keep asking for help when needed.

Imagine if instead of just reddit.com there was also reddit.org and reddit.co.uk and reddit.nl and reddit.social and (etc etc) all on a different server from each other and each with its own set of users and subreddits. But each user and each subreddit could be viewed and joined by any user from any server - that’s Lemmy.

So you’re on the piefed.social server (but on the fediverse servers are called ‘instances’) and I’m on the lemmy.blahaj.zone instance but we can both see, subscribe to and post to a community (the Lemmy name for subreddits) on an instance neither of us are members of - the asklemmy community on the lemmy.world instance.

Take a look at your screen (or app if you’re on mobile) and you’ll see ‘Local’, ‘Subscribed’ and ‘All’. If you select ‘Local’ you will see a list of posts from Communities that are on your home instance (which is piefed.social in your case). If you selected ‘Subscribed’ you’d see posts from all the Communities you chose to join/subscribe to across all instances. If you choose ‘All’ you’ll see posts from the entirety of Lemmy whether you subscribed to them or not. Whichever view you choose can be sorted by things like ‘new’, ‘active’, ‘hot’ etc.

To find Communities you’re interested in joining, use the Search function, type in a keyword and select ‘Communities’.

Cut, otherwise you do a line and you wake up in A&E.

Fuck you, you evil genius ;)

They’re using Nextcloud, which is fine, but be aware this means that the drive wont be e2ee. You might want to use it together with Cryptomator which is made by a German company.