So here’s how I understand it:
lemmy.world, lemmy.fmhy.ml, beehaw, (instances) etc. are all basically different servers. But they essentially all have access to the same communities, aka the equivalent of a subreddit, even though some communities are are hosted on lemmy vs beehaw, etc.?
If my understanding is correct, then, for the layman, each different instance can be seen as a site to view any of the communities, so we can register with one instance, and browse everything they all have to offer. Is that about right? Sorry, I know a guide has been posted, but I’m trying to reduce the functionality to fit into my feeble mind.
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When I visit the same community from different instances, I don’t see all the posts listed. Is the instance just slow to update? For example:
Home instance - https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/freemediaheckyeah/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1
https://lemmy.world/c/freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1
https://reddthat.com/c/freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1
https://lemmy.ml/c/freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1
The other instances haven’t updated yet to show the latest posts.
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The major downside of this, if I understand correctly, is that this also applies to usernames. For the most part this won’t be a problem but I can easily imagine a specific type of trolling that can come from this feature.
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Would there ever be a way to synchronize content between communities on different servers? What I see as the problem here is that there may be, let’s say, several Zelda communities on different servers, all with different content, so it would become difficult to follow all. Or is there any mechanism in place to prevent communities from being replicated?
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Yeah, I guess eventually things will get consolidated into single communities or you may have a few rival communities similar in size but hopefully fragmentation shouldn’t be too much of an issue. Should be fun though.
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