I will miss it.
Anyone have a good/like RIF android app suggestion? Also what is an “instance”?
An instance is basically a Lemmy “app”. These “apps” or instances of Lemmy are being run on some server somewhere. Could be your own server you set up or a pre-existing one like lemmy.world setup by someone else. Each instance or “app” is also connected to every other Lemmy instance unless explicitly blacklisted. This why you sometimes see urls in peoples user names and communities. They’re posting from someone else’s Lemmy server (not the one you’re logged in to).
The idea is if one instance goes down, Lemmy as a whole will continue to run so long as one is still running. It also allows people who to host their own for whatever reason they may have, whether that be differences of opinion with existing instances or simply because they want their own set of communities.
An instance is a web server running the Lemmy software. You are most likely on lemmy.world
All the servers talk to each h other and if you make an account on one instance you should be able to view content and post/comment on communities on other instances like lemmy.ml as well.
It actually hurt a little to uninstall it tonight.
I’m keeping it on mine as a sort of weird shrine to the old world, but yeah man, clicking it out of years of habit just to get an error message really hurts.
Same, I didn’t uninstall it but I removed the icon. I still instinctively go for it…muscle memory.
Me too, I’m not going back and starting from scratch with reddit and also giving them an email address. It’s so bloated, full of bots, and completely slanted to one side that keeps deforming as people one-up each other’s radicalism. Reddit was the perfect example of power corrupting.