A question I'm not seeing asked is about the communities.
I see in plenty of explanations that I can "interact" with communities on different instances. Which is great! But for the life of me I can't figure out how to subscribe to a community on a different instance (I'm on lemmy.world and want to subscribe to a community on lemmy.ml). It was mentioned in another comment that you only need one account on the fediverse, but when I view a community from a different instance it asks me to sign up or sign in.
Am I unable to subscribe to a community on a different instance? Is it a flaw in the app I'm using (Connect for Android)? Am I supposed to log in to my account, but just select a different instance? There's lots of communities not hosted on lemmy.world that I was a big part of on Reddit.
Eh. They_were_ until about 4(?) years ago. I noticed there was a big shift when all of a sudden nobody cared about spelling and grammar mistakes anymore, and Reddit itself started changing to be more average-person minded. But in the beginning absolutely yes, that's why the format was the way it was