It’s like each server is it’s own reddit and that server can have it’s own subreddits. You can start a subreddit (community) with the same name on two different servers even.
The weirdness is, each server can talk to the other one so it doesn’t matter which one you are a member of. You can see all of them.
Until you start dealing with defederation. People on Beehaw don’t see posts from lemmy.world and lemmy.world gets no updated posts from Beehaw. You don’t really want to join a server that’s siloed off from other servers involuntary. The users then have to go out of their way to content, especially if they like to use /all
I still don’t even know what the servers on lemmy are, each “subreddit” is a different server?
It’s like each server is it’s own reddit and that server can have it’s own subreddits. You can start a subreddit (community) with the same name on two different servers even.
The weirdness is, each server can talk to the other one so it doesn’t matter which one you are a member of. You can see all of them.
So lemmy.world is a lemmy server, lemmy is the protocol?
ActivityPub is the protocol. https://activitypub.rocks/
Until you start dealing with defederation. People on Beehaw don’t see posts from lemmy.world and lemmy.world gets no updated posts from Beehaw. You don’t really want to join a server that’s siloed off from other servers involuntary. The users then have to go out of their way to content, especially if they like to use /all