For example searching for Python I see there is “Python” with 10 subs, and “Python@lemmy.ml” with 100 subs.

  • Dax87@forum.stellarcastle.net
    2·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy is federated, as in there is more than one instance of Lemmy running, and they are all interconnected and synced to some degree via protocol.

    So you’re able to interact with one community on one instance from another instance.

    Kinda like how you can email someone with @gmail.com @yahoo.com

    Or at least that’s my understanding. I just started learning about the Fediverse yesterday.

    • jettrscga@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah they’re completely different communities that happen to have the same name.

      Kind of confusing, I hope they do come up with an idea to merge them as users scale.

      • Eddie Hitler@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        I think the whole point is to keep them from merging. No centralization. That way you can up and down vote servers along with post or block certain servers altogether. Now they might be able to incorporate it some way in the app where you could group common instances and assign your own categories. That would work pretty well.

        • jettrscga@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah exactly. I can see why they haven’t done it since it conflicts with the core idea.

          I agree. Allowing users to tag their communities, or even have mods tag their communities with related neighbor communities could be a good solution.

      • aski3252@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I think there is something in the works that makes them multicommunities per default.

        Decentralization is kinda the entire point of lemmy and other fediverse apps. There is no company, like reddit, facebook, etc. who controlls lemmy. Anyone can run their own lemmy instance however they feel like and create whatever communities they want.

  • kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    I am having a hard time understanding this as well.

    I created my account with lemmy.fmhy.ml but I’m struggling to kling to Lemmy world communities, do I need to make an account there or what? I can’t use my fmhy account there.

    Also I’m using the Jeroba app for Android which it might complicate stuff.