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I wrote this guide for my community.
Feel free to edit it for your own.
As Lemmy is a different beast than Reddit, I feel the need to summarize the Lemmy situation for everyone. Especially with how it affects this community.
Federation vs Defederation -- This is turning out to be more important than I recognized initially. But not "too important". As long as Federation works, we're not supposed to think about it. But... when things don't work... well... we gotta start talking specifics. The long-story short is that https://lemmy.world is where !realtesla exists, and thus any federation and/or defederation issue that affects lemmy.world will be affecting this community. Keeping track of this will be a pain, but hopefully the lemmy community figures these things out in the long term.
https://beehaw.org -- Defederated with https://lemmy.world for internet drama/political reasons. In particular, beehaw.org does not want open signups, not until more moderation tools become available. https://lemmy.world is aiming at a Reddit-like open signup scheme, so its fundamentally conflicting with https://beehaw.org's philosophies. The expectation is for better moderation tools to be invented and eventually allow the two servers to federate again.
.18 vs .17 -- https://lemmy.world has been hit with a huge number of bot-accounts, so the admins around here have enabled CAPTCHA-enrollment. However, CAPTCHA was broken in .18, so https://lemmy.world has decided to stay on .17. This seems to have broken federation to some extent (not fully decoupled like Beehaw.org... but there's a HUGE number of glitches occurring right now with .18 instances).
You lemmy.ca users? (I know you exist, we talked on Discord, lol), you're on .18. You're gonna get glitches with a .17 instance like Lemmy.world. But Lemmy.world will not upgrade until the promised .18.1 CAPTCHA release.
kbin -- kbin, especially kbin.social, is entirely different software from Lemmy. There is only one glitch I'm aware of: the Lemmy-post will break if you forget to select a language (ex: "English") when you write a response to kbin users and/or kbin.social.
Search to bring in a community -- An interesting "Lemmyism", is that communities in the Federation don't exist until a user searches for it. For example, if there is a newCommunity@programming.dev that https://lemmy.world is unaware of, "someone" on the server needs to search for it before the https://lemmy.world server is aware of its existence. This sets off some kind of backend process where the https://lemmy.world server begins to download all the posts / history that makes it possible to subscribe to that community. Eventually, the user needs to subscribe to fully bring the community into lemmy.world. This process can take a long time, minutes or even hours. I don't know. If anyone is having issues finding a community across the federation, you can message me to help bring it into the https://lemmy.world server. Or message me if you wanna learn how to do it on your own server. I'm still learning the details myself, but its obviously not the easiest process.
That should cover it for now. This federation thing will be a pain to keep track of, but it offers benefits. Lets hope the benefits outweigh the downsides.