You can (mostly) email anyone at any email address on any provider, but you still need a username and password to log in to your webmail.
With lemmy, you can read and comment on any community, and respond to any user.
e.g. You are from lemmy.world, this community is hosted on lemmy.world, but I'm from lemmy.one
Brooooooooooooooo
Thank you. I've been letting the instance concept just kind of float by undetected figuring I didn't need to understand it to navigate it I suppose. But I much prefer to understand :) thanks for the concise wording
Thank you! That analogy clicks nicely in my head, so it's very appreciated.
An additional note: if you want to subscribe to a community on a different instance, you need to search for it through your home instance
An instance is like your email provider.
You can (mostly) email anyone at any email address on any provider, but you still need a username and password to log in to your webmail.
With lemmy, you can read and comment on any community, and respond to any user.
e.g. You are from lemmy.world, this community is hosted on lemmy.world, but I'm from lemmy.one
Brooooooooooooooo
Thank you. I've been letting the instance concept just kind of float by undetected figuring I didn't need to understand it to navigate it I suppose. But I much prefer to understand :) thanks for the concise wording
Thank you! That analogy clicks nicely in my head, so it's very appreciated.
An additional note: if you want to subscribe to a community on a different instance, you need to search for it through your home instance
That helps a lot, thanks