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Lui@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 165 points –

What is an instance? what is a federation? what is a server? can someone please describe in simple terms how this all runs and how we as users navigate it?

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Thank you for this.

How does one go about finding communities from other instances and connect with them?

Use your instance's search feature. You can search

  • Name of community: No Stupid Questions
  • By using !community@instance syntax: !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
  • URL of the community: https://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestions

First option won't work if your instance hasn't federated the community yet. The last option is best in my opinion.

Some small addition to the last option:

If you want to browse a community from a specific instance on your home instance you have to add the 'home' instance.

For example your home instance (where you did register your account) is Lemmy.ml and the community you want to interact with is on Lemmy.world you would use:

Https://Lemmy.ml/c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

In order to be able to post, reply etc