Because I may be posting the first stupid post. I recently discovered Perchance after getting far too annoyed with another platform. I saw a challenge and wanted to enter but it required me being a member of this site, Lemmy.World. So here are my question(s):
- What is the purpose of Lemmy.World?
- How is it used?
- Is it like anything else I might be familiar with to help me understand better? (Note: almost 70 so may need old references.)
- What’s the relationship between this site and Perchance?
- What else should I know that I didn’t know to ask?
Because I was raised this way … thank you in advance for being patient with me.
lemmy.world -> An instance of “Lemmy”: it’s like if Reddit could be hosted by anyone in the world rather that one big server, and all these mini-servers can talk to each other! Also, Lemmy is part of the greater “Fediverse” (kind of like if Instagram users could see posts from Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. The Fediverse is a collection of different platforms like Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, Frendica, PeerTube, etc.). lemmy.world in particular is one of the larger instances of Lemmy.
lemmy.world is used like Reddit, you can create posts in “communities” (subreddit equivalent) and comment on them. There are thousands of communities on all sorts of topics (discussion, sciences, movies, games, asking questions, various hobbies, etc.)! You are also able to upvote and downvote (but there’s no “algorithm” like on something like Reddit). That’s the main gist of it, I think.
Perchance, after a quick search, is an AI image generator, so I don’t think it has much of a connection with any of Lemmy’s instances. I will say that competitions usually give you extra entries if you subscribe to their social media and such on the various platforms, so that’s probably why you had to make an account on lemmy.