oh it still is but it was a few weeks ago too
Basically, you saw different posts on each instance's local feed because they dont always federate with the exact same servers, one may be blocked on one instance or not yet discovered
it does matter what instance you're on when your instance starts getting defederated by others - so far i know a lot of servers defederated lemmygrad and explodingheads for political extremism, and beehaw blocked shitjustworks and lemmy.world because of bots
it was canadian
Windows 11 is also descended from NT isn't it? Or is it considered too different now?
I don't think it's decentralization that really makes it complicated, rather there's no algorithm to keep you hooked and push you ads. It's all human curated and so it's harder to "get into" it if that makes sense
Doug Bowser will be at their doorstep shortly
no seriously it's so much more engaging and chill than Reddit , you don't have to deal with karma whores etc etc... Love it here
follow communities that post about other topics then?
welcome! enjoy your time on the fediverse! personally i found fedi back in '19 but the latest stuff with reddit re-sparked my interest and got me into using lemmy
I'm pretty sure some mastodon forks solve this and let you browse other instances local timelines
nevermind AIs, people will dogpile you and just generally be dicks over on that site even over something innocuous, and it's great being somewhere that spectre isn't hanging over your head