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How does federation work with the "subreddit" model? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Hi, I'm new here, so sorry if this has been asked before.

I understand that Lemmy is supposed to be like a decentralised Reddit, but I've got a question about this; on Reddit, there is only one server, with subreddits on it, so there is only one r/Music, only one r/AskReddit, etc.

However, on Lemmy there are many servers; would this lead to a situation where many servers have repeats of the same popular communities or does this not happen in practice? Is there a good way for me to find communities across all federated instances? Thanks :)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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It kinda bothers me that communities are formatted like that instead of their actual http URL. When out of context, this is converted into a mailto: link, whereas using the http URL would result in a link I can click to actually get to that community.

[โ€“] PriorProject 1 points 2 years ago

I'm a little fuzzy on the difference, but I think you CAN use https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy interchangeably with [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])... though yeah... the latter seems to be the thing that's displayed everywhere and it does get handled in a funky way by things that understand mailto.