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I would suggest reading this FAQ that's been put together.
https://lemmy.world/post/37906
Also, just subscribe to https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld to keep up to date on this instance.
Unlike Reddit, which is a monolith with many subreddits run by volunteer mods, Lemmy is federated. That is, volunteers run their own servers which then are joined to the fediverse and can populate their own communities onto other instances/servers. Each instance/server can run as many or as few communities as the owner decides. Once a server/instance is fully federated, you can subscribe to communities on other instances from your own. The easiest way to subscribe to communities on other instances is to just click on the "Communities" link at the top of this page, and select "All".
Each instance/server can have its own policies as to what is acceptable. We have an instance that is specifically for NSFW content, https://lemmynsfw.com/. That makes it much easier to limit what your kids can or cannot see. Currently, we have an instance, beehaw, that is described as a walled garden with high-quality content. The volunteers are overwhelmed with all the redittors showing up and have decided to temporarily de-federate. That is, although you can see their communities and posts from elsewhere, they cannot see yours. We are hoping this will be temporary.
This is actually an excellent feature of Lemmy. It allows instance owners, hopefully with advice from their users, to disconnect certain kinds of content. To see which instances a particular instance is connected/disconnected to/from just add "/instances" to the end of the server name. For this instance, that would be:
https://lemmy.world/instances
Having multiple instances/servers can lead to duplicate communities being created on several servers/instances. Eventually, the smaller copies will probably drop away. Here is the current list of communities in the fediverse, sorted by popularity:
https://lemmyverse.net/communities