Are communities server-specific? i.e, is the "Gaming" community on lemmy.ml different from the one on, say, beehaw.org?
I have a question about communities. Are communities server-specific, for example, is the "Gaming" community on lemmy.ml different from the one on, say, beehaw.org and will I need to join both?
Note that you can use your same account to subscribe to both of them, as one may be more active than the other. Feel free to pick one or both it doesn't really matter. Different websites/servers have slightly different rules and different culture, so the posts and comments will be slightly different community to community.
So, the way that I figured it, you could have the !something@someserver concept, which I call groups (lemmy calls them communities), and the collision of those (say, !something with no server), would be called "regions" because they'd be several competing communities trying to use a shared resource. Moderation of a region would be a nightmare.
You could probably make a reddit-esque "multireddit" style view that represents the "regions" concept - just know that you are posting to a particular community with particular mods, in the end.
O wait, the whole federation allows federation of just users and not communities?
So all this time I have been looking at posts just on the main instance and not posts across all instances?
fugggggggg
so now I have to go search for communities of same name on all other instances as well and subscribe to them?
ok, fine. How do I do this?
there should really be something that automates this process
So that's how you do it. Nice so you can also combine closely-related topics. I do think as a new user (like myself) it's a bit daunting that I can't just subscribe to 1 of each topic but potentially have to go seek out the multiple versions of it on different servers, let alone keep up in case new servers come around.
Maybe there could be a centralized list of multis you can subscribe to and these would be maintained for you, or something like that.