Hello,
I’m currently on my journey of leaving reddit, but not having much success (not giving up either)
One of the things that it’s hitting me the most is the fact that, well, Lemmy has different instances and not all communities I like are on the same one.
Despite me reading different beginners guide of how to lemmy on github (and them having example on such matter) I’m still not understanding it properly, so I thought of asking you guys some help!
For example, we are on lemmy.world, but, for example, [email protected] is on another instance, which is lemmy.zip. Is there any way for me to subscribe to it without making an account on that instance? Will I be able to comment/post there without an account on that specific instance, but by using my lemmy.world account?
Thanks in advance to every folk that will try to help me, much appreciated!
Yes. You will bale to subscribe to it. Think of it as countries that have alliances. Think of lemmy.world, lemmy.ml as countries that have alliances to share information. The country lemmy.world shares information with lemmy.ml and the country lemmy.ml share information with lemmy.world. That is called federation.
When it comes to beehaw, that instance decided to defedrate with some big instances, like lemmy.world. That means lemmy.world and beehaw no longer share information (yes, I know it’s extremely simplistic, but it’s just to explain how federation works).
When it comes to lemmy, it’s different instances that share information to each other so that it appears as one big system.
