I actually used google’s chat to talk with my family for a while, like 2010s I think. Everyone thought it was weird though, I only used it because my parents did 😂

So by defederated, that means since I have a lemmy.world account, I can’t subscribe to the piracy community? But if I made another account on a different instance I could?

Could someone set up a private multi-user instance? I’m imagining like an instance with just a few friends, where you share content from other instances but noone can see what is shared there except the people invited in.

Okay, so does that mean you could potentially protect your own account from an instance being shutdown by making sure to subscribe to communities in other instances?

What do you mean by the company-run instances? Like for internal communication?

The email comparison helps a lot. I imagine the redundancy would help potentially safeguard the system when one instance goes down, but maybe is ecologically more wasteful?

So cool! Thanks for clarifying some of the terminology for me as well.

Nice analogy, thanks. Good to know Lemmy.world is donation run. Are decisions about the instance made by a collective body?

Thanks, helps a lot!

If an instance is closed, would everyone’s accounts and posts on there be lost?

How does Lemmy pick which articles are at the top of my feed? Does anyone know how All is sorted?