Why would they do that? I’m unaware of internal issues in Lemmy at this point?

Yeah, as someone who is struggling to understand the concept of federation…this doesn’t help me at all.

I guess what its saying, if you’re on lemmy.world, you can’t access content on lemmy.zip?

No I totally understand the benefit of decentralization; however on the user end, I just want to consume content.

To that end, can I post on one knitting instance and that’ll reach all knitting communities on Lemmy? How do I get the most engagement, which instance is the most popular

(and by the way, knitting was a random example on my end, but I am surprised that there aren’t any active instances to what I would assume, is a fairly popular hobby).

So tangentially to the post, I guess the implied question is: when will Lemmy see another explosion in its userbase.

And to that…I don’t know.

I’ve been trying to get away from reddit for a while and the problem with Lemmy is two fold

1. Very minor: it requires me to unblock cloudflare when I’m using noscript

2. More major, I still don’t have an intuitive understanding of how lemmy works. On reddit if I was interested in knitting, going to old.reddit.com/r/knitting would be a good starting point.

I’m still confused about multiple instances, why bifurcate the community (are there multiple instances of knitting communities on lemmy?).

I (perhaps foolishly) consider myself slightly above average in terms of tech literacy; if I’m this confuse I do wonder how are others going to fare.