• FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 days ago

    I didn’t give a shit

    My account on the old nsfw stopped working because apparently someone shit the bed or stopped doing something or whatever

    It’s not something that I care about, so I just did whatever

    I have no idea what instance I’m on

    I don’t even know what instances are, or what difference it makes

    • bonenode@piefed.socialEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      You know, I actually love reading this. People complain a lot about how complicated the fediverse/lemmy/whatever is and they cannot even sign up, yada yada. And yet here you are, not giving a damn about it all and still you manages to make an account and you are here. Kudos to you!

    • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      You are on lemmy.world

      You can see the instance others are on by the @ after their name. If they don’t have one, they are local to you.

      • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz
        3·
        2 days ago

        I think that it depends on how you access lemmy. Iirc, voyager and some others allow you to toggle user instances (at least for comments)

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          9 hours ago

          That sounds odd if that is an option. My doesn’t show instances if it’s the same as mine. However, since this is all federated, you can have the same username as someone else from another instance. If it doesn’t show instances then that could be confusing at best, if not used maliciously.

          • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz
            1·
            9 hours ago

            It’s not really locked or kept from us. We can just choose it to visually declutter.

            I don’t really care what instance someone is from. If I need to know, I can just tap their name.

            • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
              11·
              7 hours ago

              I don’t really care what instance they’re from, but I do care who they are. It’s like if we just went by our first names here, there would be so much confusion with common first names. You’d need to at least use their last name to know if they’re the same person or not. With federation, you can have the same name as someone else on a different instance. I don’t really care where they’re from usually, but it is important for identification.

              In my opinion, this is less declutter and more obfuscation. There’s potentially important information that isn’t being shown. Often it isn’t an issue, but sometimes it is.