• sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyzEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Hello there!

    Lemmy is a federated social platform. What does this mean for me? It means that you could be on any instance, and talk to most other instances.

    What is an instance? An instance of lemmy is just a single individual lemmy server. You can host your own on a VPS if you want!

    An instance is a single copy of the software running on a single physical or virtual server. If you run two copies of the software on the same physical or virtual server, that counts as two instances.

    https://www.nginx.com/Resources

    I am on lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz, and I am able to interact with you, a lemmy.blahaj.zone user, on lemmy.blahaj.zone!

    This is the power of a federated community!

      • Vii@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        You dont. My account is from the german instance feddit.de and I can see, post and comment on many different instances. The only reason to have different accounts is to access an instance that defederated from the one you were using since they cant contact each other. But with some exceptions you are better off not visiting those instances anyways because they often are full of trolls, neocons or tankies: people that dont deserve a platform.

      • sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Well, they’re different websites, so yeah. Except no, because the fact that they’re federated with each other means you can participate in communities from other instances.

        Source: I’m doing it right now

  • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy

    Ian Fraser Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015), better known as Lemmy Kilmister or simply Lemmy, was an English musician. He was the founder, lead singer, bassist and primary songwriter of the rock band Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member, and a member of Hawkwind from 1971 to 1975.

    A foundational force in the genre following the advent of the new wave of British heavy metal, Lemmy was known for his appearance, which included his signature friendly mutton chops, his military-influenced fashion sense and his gravelly rasp of a voice. It was once declared “one of the most recognisable voices in rock”.[1] He was also noted for his unique way of singing, which was once described as “looking up towards a towering microphone tilted down into his weather-beaten face”.[2] He was also known for his bass playing style and using his Rickenbacker bass to create an “overpowered, distorted rhythmic rumble”.[2] Another notable aspect of his bass sound was his guitar-like riffing, which included using a pick, and often played power chords using heavily overdriven tube stacks by Marshall.

    Lemmy was born in Stoke-on-Trent and grew up between there, the nearby towns of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Madeley, and later the Welsh village of Benllech, Anglesey. At a later point, Lemmy remembers living briefly at Gwrych Castle, Abergele.[3] He was influenced by rock and roll and the early works of the Beatles, which led to him playing in several rock groups in the 1960s, such as the Rockin’ Vickers. He worked as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix and The Nice before joining the space rock band Hawkwind in 1971, singing lead vocals on their hit “Silver Machine”. In 1975, he was fired from Hawkwind after an arrest for drug possession. That same year, he founded Motörhead. The band’s success peaked around 1980 and 1981, including the hit single “Ace of Spades” and the chart-topping live album No Sleep 'til Hammersmith.

    Lemmy continued to record and tour regularly with Motörhead until his death on 28 December 2015 in Los Angeles, where he had lived since 1990. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer two days before his death. Alongside his music career, he had minor roles and cameos in film and television. He was known for his hard-living lifestyle, which included chain-smoking and daily consumption of large amounts of alcohol and amphetamine.

    Instance

    noun noun: instance; plural noun: instances

    an example or single occurrence of something.
"a serious instance of corruption"

exemplification
    a particular case.
    "in this instance it mattered little"

    verb verb: instance; 3rd person present: instances; past tense: instanced; past participle: instanced; gerund or present participle: instancing

    cite (a fact, case, etc.) as an example.
"here he instances in particular the work of Bach"

    What is going on here

    Users on a forum are chatting. This a forum, but without a singular owner. Each “instance” is just some rando who provides the resources to store, and send out posts. All of these randos allow everyone to see it all in an interconnected massive forum, and some only house certain types of content. Say gayporn.ml only housing christian minecraft server content.