I've been pretty inactive on here for the last few months and I see that things have moved to lemmy and there's federating and defederating and the fediverse (just assumed this was a joke about 
) I feel dumb and I don't know what any of its means. Instances, controversies etc.
Can someone please give me a tldr or point me to a thread explaining the timeline and key information? Thank you!
every instance is basically like it's own reddit. Lots of duplicate "sublemmys" between all the different instances.
The controversy is that it let some really fucking stupid people post here, but that's mostly been locked down. Wreckers still show up but theyre banned in a hour.
Now that I have spent more time on here today, I have noticed an increase in lib-ing. Kind of disappointing tbh
just be wary of anyone with an @ in there name, especially if its not @lemmygrad. It really hasnt been too bad.
Glad to hear it!