One of the great things about Lemmy is that you can control your user experience. No algorithms, no "suggestions" being forced on you, no ads, no data mining, no spez/Musk/Zuck. So curate my Lemmy space heavily and enjoy the peace and quiet and slow pace. R*ddit was my only social media for years so Lemmy is similar enough to that to be familiar and useful, but different enough to be worth using.

I'm using this one tomorrow at work!

Yes, I got that. But how do you connect to them?

Also, I know it's typed out somewhere, but I can't find it and couldn't understand it anyway. Could someone explain to me as if I'm technologically useless and just a bit dense generally, how to connect with communities on other instances? Something about copying links and pasting them somewhere? I'm on jerboa if that means anything.

Pretty much everything has a bit of lag on my end. Not complaining, I understand why, just letting you know.

It seems a bit laggy to me, but that's hardly surprising. I hope we can form a good little community of outsiders here! 👍