People need to realize you can use alternatives
I was advised by a redditor to join '.word' because ml was overwhelmed
Not really sure what the difference is tbh. I'm here interacting with an ml community so why not?
I'd like to know if I can make my own subreddit equivalent though?
I signed up for another one, but they haven't approved me yet!
Proud to be a sh.itjust.works user
I joined sopuli.xyz because they have a cute fuzzy animal in a hat as their logo.
Nuhuh, beehaws active user count and seemingly inclusive nature drew me in
I didn’t even mind writing an application and waiting a bit to be accepted. Of all the instances I looked at, Beehaw was the one that appealed to me the most.
If I want to comment on another insurance such as beehaw.org, do I need to create a different account or can I log in with one that I created on lemmy.ml?
Echoing on from @howdy, think of it as email: if you have a gmail account, you can still talk to someone with a yahoo account. The same principle applies here: given the URL (link) to community, you can subscribe to it and view all posts on it using an account on any server, so the sign up server does not matter to have access to all content.
As a new user I find the different servers a little confusing, especially since you're saying I can interact with others just the same. What is the purpose of all that, and couldn't it be doing what it's doing in the back end without me being aware of it?
Well when other instances outright ghost your application people.will either discard the fediverse or join the ones with auto accept be it LM or mimmthe one I joined.
Yeah I have been finding it hard to wrap my head around this federation part.