The idea behind this place is pretty cool but I’m with you. Neither this place, nor are the users, ready for migration “today” to flip from Reddit to this experience.

It actually takes effort to understand what to do here. I deal with idiots at work all day, the first hint of effort or difficulty with anything, especially entertainment, people will walk.

Very helpful. I had a longer response typed out but lost it by clicking “next” instead of reply so I’ll try to paraphrase. Is there a way to see a listing of instances and their size?

Not sure I get having communities spread across instances, seems like it would be rife for duplication and too spread apart but perhaps that’s just the whole “fediverse” concept if I’m understanding that properly.

I created https://lemmy.world/c/paramore but I’m going to hold off on any other community creation until I understand things better and I’m confident I’ve found my home “country.”

Yeah… and the odd site/UI bug happens and I don’t know if it’s me or the site – that’s the only bad part so far!

I’m quite lost, and don’t think I fully understand the distributed nature of the various Lemmy instances (if I’m even using those words properly).

I’ll do it like Reddit 10 years ago… wander in, poke around, make a snarky comment or 4 and see where it goes.