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And we're about to see a lot more in the following days

You should probably answer those Discord notifications lol

I think it's a servers thing. Lemmy.ml is under a lot of pressure lately.

Adding to what the other guy said, you can think of Lemmy as a collection of servers. Right now you're on lemmy.ml, but some people are on https://beehaw.org/ for example. Beehaw is also Lemmy, but it's a different server with different users and communities.

Here's what makes the Fediverse cool though. You don't need to go there to interact with them. You can stay on lemmy.ml and access and comment on Beehaw. When you're on the home page it defaults to "Local", but if you click on "All" you can see posts from different servers. Same thing when you click on "Communities" at the top. It lets you browse communities on different servers by clicking "All".

Let's say you wanted to browse the gaming community on Beehaw. You can write "gaming" in the search field and find gaming@beehaw.org, or you can just type it into your search bar as https://lemmy.ml/c/gaming@beehaw.org

Now you can browse, comment, vote, and interact with that community. I posted this comment from https://kbin.social/ , which is NOT Lemmy, but since the Fediverse is connected we can basically interact with each other from different websites.

I never really liked Twitter as a concept. It feels like it's built on an "old man yells at cloud" concept where people just shout their thoughts and nobody gains anything from it.

By comparison forums are there to foster discussions and communities. I thought Mastodon would be better but I spent 5 minutes and it's exactly the same nonsense.

I'm not quite sure how exactly everything works but it seems like a lot of things on kbin get thrown to /m/random, does anyone know what's up with that? A lot of communities from lemmy show up as a 404 and posts end up there.