Can someone explain different communities in different instances?
Can someone explain different communities in different instances?
Hello,
New to the Fediverse and there is some learning to do.
I heard if I had signed up for one instance, I will be able to see all communities across the board.
My question is, Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml both have Worldnews comms. I can see the Lemmy.world one in Lemmy.ml with the url [email protected]. And vice versa. And sub to them accordingly right?
So this means there can be a repeat of communities across the fediverse?
Yes, you are correct.
But like you said, since u can see the communities on other servers and subscribe to them, you don't have to miss anything.
My issue was Lemmy.ml just leaves every subscription of mine on pending. No idea why.
I think pending means the server is still processing it and since the performance problems all instances are having there is some delay.
You are telling lemmy.world that you want to subscribe to lemmy.ml so it has to synchronize it but since both instances are very busy it takes a while to process. Not very sure on this one though but I guess .world has to communicatie with .ml for the subscription.
Think of it like email. Same email can exist @gmail or @icloud or @outlook. It’s generally good for everyone to rally behind the same one though but it’s not a requirement.
Thanks!
why is it good? i thought the whole point was not to do centralization like that? I am having some trouble wrapping my headaround the idea of federated communities so I coud be missing something.
I think it’s fine to centralize communities has long as the instances federated together can access it. Certainly it doesn’t make sense to have dozens of News communities but as long as Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, etc can access the main one, then I’m fine. Maybe I’ll change my mind later on.
Think of an instance as a website, if reddit was on Lemmy, it would be an instance. Communities are subreddits. The reason you see other communities on different instances is because admins from both instances have agreed to basically share the community.
Sounds about right. Thanks!