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Honestly? I fucking love it.
Its SO fast (I have my own instance), and instead of subscribing to subreddits and one server, now I subscribe to communities and multiple instances.
The people are responsive.
Only problem is missing niche communities, and discoverability, but that will improve with time hopefully with something like multi-reddits.
See like I dont even know what you just said lol. I don't know what an instance is or what a server means in this context, and i know what a community is kinda but no idea why they are called something.something//Lemmy.something.biz.kbin haha. and I dont know what multiple instances is.
I've got a lot to learn. But hey I managed to reply to this so im getting somewhere.
Okay, here's how I explained it to my kid.
You've got the united states, that's lemmy.
You've got states, which are instances. Servers are the roads inthem ,and the things that keep the roads working.
Communities are cities.
Kbin is Canada. Mastadon is France, where they do things weird, but they're working on the same basic principles.
The fediverse is the UN.
It ain't exactly right, but it ain't exactly wrong :)
haha that gave me a good laugh :)