• orientalsniper@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Short version:

    lemmy: some sort of opensource type of Reddit

    instances: can also be called servers, anyone can host a lemmy code.

    community: synonym for subreddit

    federation: instances can federate (connect) to each other and their users can interact with the connected instances, they can also defederate (disconnect).