There are many, here is a nice tool for you to check out what is there: https://lemmyverse.net/

Came here to comment this. I wanted to enjoy it but I just didn’t. I can see myself having good fun with it if I watched it 10-15 years ago but when I did it just didn’t hit where it should’ve

I mean… communities is the official term, makes sense to use it. No idea where the others come from - except magazines, that is a kbin thing.

It certainly needs an experimental phase, I was just doing research and checking out instances and whatnot first few days. You might find this tool useful for browsing instances and communities: https://lemmyverse.net/

Not too late at all. To change instances however, ypu need to register on that instance and do a new account. There isn’t a way to switch instances on one account. Many are hoping there will be at one point a functionality to export stuff from one account to another but I have no idea how realistic that is.

There is little gameplay benefit from being an MMO-lite.

There would be benefit to it if they embraced it. I’m convinced they wanted for it to be more of an MMO-lite but got cold feet and played it safe, as with everything else.

There is no denying you will be warm though.