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I'm trying to understand it still. I understand you can visit communities from any other instance, but are communities shared between them? I mean, if there's an r/NFL in lemmy.world, can lemmy.ml also contain an r/NFL and would those two be two different things?
Have a look at this post, which will help you find some communities to join: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827
In short...
lemmy.world.community(aka subreddit) also has a home instance. The home instance for this community happens to be also belemmy.world, same as our accounts.lemmy.worldfederates with.So while it's possible for multiple instances to have an
nflcommunity, it's not necessary since you can sub to the NFL community on another instance and that's totally normal and expected. Think of it as the subreddits name includes its instance name, so[!nfl@lemmy.ml](/c/nfl@lemmy.ml)is just a different subreddit than[!nfl@lemmy.world](/c/nfl@lemmy.world), just like on Reddit you could have competing subs named/r/nfland/r/nflfootball. And just like reddit, when things start to calm down, I think you will see that in cases where a bunch of dupe subs exist... one or two with active mods start to dominate on user count and those end up being the most interesting. It will be a bit wild west for a while though. Lemmy is a lot smaller than reddit, though, when I find dupes of a topic I care about, my strategy had been to subscribe to them all and I'll cancel the ones that flopped a few months from now when it's clear what is active and what's dead.So my account's home instance is lemmy.world. Do I need to make a new account to access another instance, or can I use this one across every instance?
First of all the r/ doesn’t apply here (okay, I’m being pedantic, sorry), but if I understood correctly what you’re asking, you can see any community from all instances. Each instance can also create a community of the same name (so in that case they wouldn’t be shared) but you can access !community@instance everywhere and it’s the same for all
This is also the confusing part to me. If I want to see content for NFL, are we all fractured among hundreds of servers and there is no way to see all new posts on all of the verse at once?
You would just have to subscribe to both so they are in your feed. I don't know if there's any way to merge them into one, but that shouldn't be impossible. That doesn't mean it's a currently implemented feature though...
Merging them is not necessarily always a good idea neither. Different instances might have different rules and principles
I meant merge like how multireddit works, where you combine multiple subs into a single distinct feed that doesn't include all the subs you're subbed to.
Yes this would be two different communities on two different servers. Right now everything here is still wild west but overtime you will get something like a "default" NFL community where most people visit and several smaller sub-communites on different servers.
We have a gaming on lemmy.ml and we have a gaming on beehaw.org. The later is already bigger and way more active than the former.
First time here for me, and I’m confused as well.
Say there’s a ‘movies’ community on this server, and one on lemmy.ml, and over time the one on ml becomes the definitive one, do I need to have an account on the ml server as well or is there a way to be able to see multiple communities on different servers in my stream?
Thanks for taking the time to help us newcomers out.
You only need one account to access the entire Lemmy network. So you can still access the movies community on lemmy.ml if it does become the definitive one and considering that it's the "main" instance right now, that shouldn't be hard either.
I mean, I'm commenting here in lemmy.world from lemmy.ml