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Android Community Closure Update (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 11 months ago by lwadmin to c/lemmyworld

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We have received numerous reports from users about the closure of the c/android community. While we fully support the original community owners' decision to move to another instance, it will eventually be necessary to open up the community on Lemmy.world. The beauty of the fediverse is that multiple communities on the same subject can exist in different instances. However, if you can no longer moderate a community on Lemmy for any reason, it is important to pass it on to individuals who are willing and able to do so.

To ensure the best interests of our instance members, it is necessary to establish boundaries. Holding onto a community name cannot be a permanent arrangement. It's important to consider our users' ongoing interest in the community if they wish it to continue. While we acknowledge the objective of consolidating communities, current community members ultimately decide whether they wish to join the new community at lemdro.id.

To ensure a smooth transition, we will keep the community locked for another week, providing ample time to inform the active user base about the move to the new instance at https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected].

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[–] ThatGirlKylie 4 points 11 months ago (12 children)

So if the new community is still federated with lemmy.world, if they reopen this instance does that not make things overwrite each other or would they have to defederate themselves from lemmy.world?

Sorry if this is a dumb question. New to the fediverse and lemmy in general.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (10 children)

No - they're entirely separate.

Basically the way it works is that you never really leave the instance you're on. When you access a community hosted on that instance, you're of course on that instance. But when you access a community that's hosted on another instance, you're actially accessing a mirror of that community that's hosted on your own instance.

So for example, from your point of view, coming in through lemmy.world, the two entirely separate communities are [email protected] and [email protected]@lemmy.world. The first one is the lemmy.world community snd the second one is a local mirror of the entirely separate lemdro.id community.

Hope that makes sense ..

[–] ThatGirlKylie 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Kind of, I still have a lot to learn.

So lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are two separate instances right? And then the communities on those instances are like subreddits for lack of better terms?

[–] nosut 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Think of it like email.

The email provider is the instance:

Google, Yahoo, outlook, etc

The community/user is your email address:

Android@gmail, Android@yahoo

Because they are different providers you can have the same name since it's the only one on that provider.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

@nosut @ThatGirlKylie I am on both lemmy.world and mastodon.social and it works like a charm

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