The term “community” is somewhat ambiguous here: the one “Lemmy community” doesn’t really exist, because the whole Fediverse is the community. It’s not limited to Lemmy users and can’t be separated. At the same time, there are the various groups/topics, which are also called “communities”.

Thanks for the clarification. I’m still a little insecure about the nomenclature; also, my interface is in German, so I’m not sure if a “Beitrag” is actually a “post” and so on… My question aimed at “the one Lemmy community” – as far as I can see, it’s not very easy to really participate on lemmy from e.g. a Mastodon account. But please correct me if I’m wrong – part of the fedivoyage is finding out how good the softwares federate…

I also noticed this content orientation and I like it very much! I feels less like a guilty pleasure and more like real, substantial communication – with, as you say, context and the possibility to develop longer thoughts. I know that there’s the possibility of some kind of thematic groups on Mastodon, but I don’t really understand that fully yet.

It also seems to me that there’s more communication between people who don’t know each other. On Mastodon, I rather stick to the people I already know and rarely start a conversation with strangers, but I feel like over here, this is the default. Or is it?