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Are communities server-specific? i.e, is the "Gaming" community on lemmy.ml different from the one on, say, beehaw.org? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by sup@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do replicate

So in this case @gaming@lemmy.ml and @gaming@beehaw.org are two different communities, both of which can be followed, and both of which federate to anyone that follows them.

It's similar to the way multiple closely related subs can exist on reddit. And it will resolve in the same way, with the users ultimately deciding

[–] federico3@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you are describing is just a form of "remote following", which is merely local caching of some content from another instance. As you wrote, each @gaming is an entirely independent community, even if the moderators are the same people across multiple servers. If an instance is shut down the community is gone. If the instance decides to throttle access and start charging money users have to pay or abandon the community. In short, this is not a significantly better user experience than traditional online forums. I'd rather have real federation.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the way ActivityPub federation works. It's built on ActivityPub.

There isn't one that offers federation in the way you want it