• Alkalyon@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Because lemmy.ml is the official instance meaning it was created by the developers of the people who created the backend for lemmy as well so people assume it would be the correct one to join.

    Thankfully fediverse doesn’t work like that and in a few days I expect users to be spread around in instances more evenly.

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        1 year ago

        The person you are replying to deleted the comment. That said, as I understand it, comments are federated once someone on a server subscribes. So, not all comments will be federated. However, stuff listed in the comments here would seem to break my understanding of how federation works. I’m very curious to hear the answers.

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        1 year ago

        They do. However, it’s only after federation has been established between two communities.

        After a while, these newer communities will be federated in and everyone will be connected.

        As lemmy.ml is the oldest community, it also has the most history (as the newer instances don’t currently get the history).

        This will likely be fixed at some point.