immadeofgold@lemmy.world to Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoWelcome reddit refugees!message-squaremessage-square277fedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1144arrow-down1message-squareWelcome reddit refugees!immadeofgold@lemmy.world to Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square277fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKronusdark@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoPretty good, can someone explain how federation works with Lemmy? Are communities linked?
minus-squareawdsns@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI’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
minus-squareKronusdark@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agobut like if there are two Gaming communities on different instances, do they merge? or are they separate?
minus-squareawdsns@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoThey 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
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.