Welcome reddit refugees!immadeofgold@lemmy.world to Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world – 98 points – 1 years agohow are yall feeling about the website?213Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsPretty good, can someone explain how federation works with Lemmy? Are communities linked?I'm commenting here from another instance (feddit.de) where I'm logged in and this community is available at https://feddit.de/c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world Similarly, you can just access communities from other instances here, e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy@lemmy.mlbut like if there are two Gaming communities on different instances, do they merge? or are they separate?They are separate. Think of community names like email addresses: john.smith@here.edu is different from john.smith@there.com Similarly, gaming@lemmy.ml is different from gaming@beehaw.orgThis is the best explanation.
Pretty good, can someone explain how federation works with Lemmy? Are communities linked?I'm commenting here from another instance (feddit.de) where I'm logged in and this community is available at https://feddit.de/c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world Similarly, you can just access communities from other instances here, e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy@lemmy.mlbut like if there are two Gaming communities on different instances, do they merge? or are they separate?They are separate. Think of community names like email addresses: john.smith@here.edu is different from john.smith@there.com Similarly, gaming@lemmy.ml is different from gaming@beehaw.orgThis is the best explanation.
I'm commenting here from another instance (feddit.de) where I'm logged in and this community is available at https://feddit.de/c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world Similarly, you can just access communities from other instances here, e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy@lemmy.mlbut like if there are two Gaming communities on different instances, do they merge? or are they separate?They are separate. Think of community names like email addresses: john.smith@here.edu is different from john.smith@there.com Similarly, gaming@lemmy.ml is different from gaming@beehaw.orgThis is the best explanation.
but like if there are two Gaming communities on different instances, do they merge? or are they separate?They are separate. Think of community names like email addresses: john.smith@here.edu is different from john.smith@there.com Similarly, gaming@lemmy.ml is different from gaming@beehaw.orgThis is the best explanation.
They are separate. Think of community names like email addresses: john.smith@here.edu is different from john.smith@there.com Similarly, gaming@lemmy.ml is different from gaming@beehaw.orgThis is the best explanation.
Pretty good, can someone explain how federation works with Lemmy? Are communities linked?
I'm commenting here from another instance (feddit.de) where I'm logged in and this community is available at https://feddit.de/c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
Similarly, you can just access communities from other instances here, e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
but like if there are two Gaming communities on different instances, do they merge? or are they separate?
They are separate. Think of community names like email addresses: john.smith@here.edu is different from john.smith@there.com
Similarly, gaming@lemmy.ml is different from gaming@beehaw.org
This is the best explanation.