https://lemmy.world/communities

Not sure of you can just replace “world” with “ml” to browse Lemmy.ml communities but it’s worth a try.

Then just scroll through the list to find what you’re looking for, hopefully.

I have an alt account that’s very glad chat & messages were removed!

Both ways are a wheel with a hub in the center and spokes out to the wheel. The users are the spoke/wheel location, the “corporation” is the spoke/hub connection

The Old Way was users connecting to a corporation that provided a service. The corporation controls almost everything.

The New Way is that users control almost everything and connect to the hub which allows them to connect with each other.

Lemmy is the hub, instances are the users, and communities are the data shared.