Here are some specific questions.

  • Are the upvotes and downvotes I make, private? If I report a comment, is my report private?

  • Can someone follow me across lemmy instances based on my username?

  • If I want to make a community, is there a reason I would choose one lemmy over another?

  • Are the powers of moderators similar to reddit’s?

  • Where can I find a list of most active lemmy instances?

  • Any other differences from reddit I should know about?

    • Ashy@lemmy.wtf
      61·
      8 months ago

      Every server is under the total control of it’s admin while moderators are self-assigned to communities by the users that created them. It’s literally the exact same structure as on reddit.

      The only difference is that there only is a single reddit server with a single set of admins, while lemmy has many instances.

      So yes, everything you mentioned is basically the same on both platforms. The only difference on lemmy being that when you piss off the admins and get banned you can go to another instance.

        • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
          31·
          8 months ago

          Lemmy admins create rule structures for the same reason Reddit admins do, they are doing high level curation of the communities they want.

          You’re right in that there isn’t the firewall between moderators and admins on Lemmy that there was on Reddit, but that was a choice that Reddit admins made, not a design difference between the two services.

        • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 months ago

          A lot of people left reddit because of the way admins were inserting themselves into communities. There is a different dynamic here.