• Ginger666@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Wait have I been using instance wrong?

    Is an instance the .world part and this is a community?

    New word hard

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      3 months ago

      It’s ok. Yes so,

      Lemmy.world is not like the main lemmy website. There isn’t one. It’s just the biggest instance. That’s all. Hilariouschaos.com like many others are just smaller ones.

      Anyway

      Lemmy.world Hilariouschaos.com Mander.xyz Lemm.ee

      For example, are all instances and will have duplicated communities. They can all have a memes community and so forth.

      Think of instances are just independent websites that either agree or disagree to connect with other and share eachothers content and access to eachothers communities.

      Bob@stupidinstance.com

      Jane@betterinstance.net

      And are connected (federated)

      Jane and Bob are both on different instances but cam join eachothers instances communities