I’m still trying to get used to Lemmy; the main thing confusing me is the federated bit.

I just want to access Lemmy and its content; how do I do that? Currently I’m just going to old.lemmy.world and using that as a starting point.

Is there another instance you would recommend as the default one?

The two main reasons I ask are:

  1. I want to know if there are things I am simply missing out on and there’s a better way to browse Lemmy.

  2. I really don’t like cloudflare and have it disabled in Javascript. I don’t want to leave it enabled for lemmy.world.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    Pretty sure you misremember, as Lemmy.cafe also requires registration to be used. There are some independant frontends (web-clients) that can be used with different Lemmy instances, but for password security reasons I strongly recommend to only use the ones hosted by the instance you have your account on, because otherwise you are basically sharing your password with whoever runs that frontend.

    • mehquestion@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Hi,

      I’m sorry to bother you again, but I have a question regarding old.slrpnk.net

      Other instances using the old. format, they have an expand button. So you can quickly see text posts or an image and see if it worth engaging with further.

      I haven’t been able to see that in old.slrpnk.net. I’m wondering if there is a way to add it in the preferences or something that I’m missing?

      Thanks and I apologize again for all the questions.

    • mehquestion@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Two things, you were right; my misunderstanding was due to my failure to have an intuitive understanding of defederation.

      What happened was that I signed on in lemmy.world to make a post on lemmy.cafe (through lemmy.world).

      My second question: I tried all weekend to access old.slrpnk.net

      But the site was either really really slow (like a page would pop up after a minute or two) or would just result in an error.

      Is this a problem on my end? Or is something going on that should be sorted out soonish?

      Thanks again and keep up the good work.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        Yeah, there is some issue on our end, but sadly it isn’t clear what might be causing it.