Feel free to click on all to see some posts from communities that are federated.
What is this place???
This is a lemmy instance I decided to make with a focus on books and writers (and anyone else wanting a smaller instance). I also am on the team of a rather large lemmy instance, but I wanted to have a space where I could post and just generally "exist" on that's a little smaller and focused on my niche interests (such as reading)
What is lemmy?
Lemmy is a decentralized platform that serves as an alternative to reddit, it functions in a similar way to older bulletin boards/usenet or email. It can get complicated to explain, but all you really need to know is that by using this instance you can access pretty much the rest of lemmy with ease and others can see posts and topics in communities here. Feel free to take a peek in the all tab, I've already federated with some pretty large communities.
Defederation
Much like with email you have spam filters that different providers use to block bad stuff, defederation serves to exist kind of like that. I only defederate from explicitly hateful or generally toxic instances. There's only a few on lemmy that are also pretty much defederated en masse, but I did migrate a list over from mastodon since sometimes mastodon content can migrate over between lemmy (it's glitchy though). I did defederate with the porn communities, and it's mainly because their communities can clog up all really fast with how lemmy functions right now.
General Rules
If I need to elaborate the rules further, I will but for the most part just generally don't be a jerk and it'll be fine.
Finding new communities
If you don't see anything that really interests you in /all, thats ok! Go to lemmyverse.net/communities and find a link to what communities look interesting and copy and paste the link into the search bar. Be patient, maybe click it more than once and it'll start to federate. If you need any help finding stuff, just ask :)
Community Creation
If you want a community here, don't hesitate to ask and I can make it for you!
It's really nice, I just wish there was an iOS mobile app for it. I like storygraph a lot, but it is centralized so I'm a lil cautious in regards to it. Goodreads was scooped up by amazon in their ever growing desire to gain a monopoly over the book industry, and they just have let it sit there and gather dust.