i just don’t get how this shit works. last night i clicked on something on hexbear that took me to lemmy.blahaj or something, and one of the first banners i see on a community says “fuck tankies”. what is that site, how is it related to this one? then there’s lemmygrad. also one i find myself on from this site. but despite looking identical my hexbear account doesn’t work on there so it’s not part of hexbear?
my ass is stupid and confused.
Hexbear is a Lemmy. Blahaj is a different Lemmy. Lemmygrad is a third Lemmy. There’s also a Lemmy that’s called “Lemmy”, so that can be confusing.
The Lemmys all talk to each other and share posts, which helps them all have more content. But it also means that sometimes wildly different communities come into contact with one another, which can cause problems. It’s easy to get used to one Lemmy’s rules but then you go to another where the rules are different and break them without realizing it.
I’m a Hexbear native, but I made an account on lemm.ee because I wanted to see a more diverse feed (Hexbear’s site culture causes a lot of friction with other Lemmys, so its blocked by many of them). Still I mostly browse Hexbear’s communities cuz this is where the best content is, generally speaking.