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I'm enjoying figuring out how the place works. For example, when I first signed up, I couldn't work out how Beehaw.org was part of Lemmy was part of the Fediverse, but I'm now subbed to almost as many communities on other servers as I am on Beehaw.
The learning curve has perhaps been more steep than on Reddit, but no more so than Twitter > Mastodon.
How I'm beginning to make sense of it is by thinking that each instance is a completely separate "reddit". The admins of each instance are as powerful as spez or any other reddit admin.
The community subdivision is then just that, a subdivision within a custom reddit rather than a "subreddit" under the centralized "main reddit website".
The federalization aspect of it is then completely alien, but understandable. At least to me!