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I don't understand how Lemmy.world developers managed to surpass both Lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org instances in user activity.

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[โ€“] a_good_hunter 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does it matter which server your account is? Asking because I am a NooB. Or nOOb? ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ™„

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not really - it only matters if the instance where you have your account (e.g. lemmy.world, in your case) is not federated with another instance (e.g., beehaw.org).

As long as your instances are federated, you'll be able to see everything on the other instance and vice versa.

There are weird states, such as instance A being federated to instance B but B not being federated to A. This means that users on A can see, comment, and (potentially? I think?) create posts for communities on B but no other instance (B, C, or otherwise) can see those comments/posts.

[โ€“] Johnnynobody66 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Federated.. instances? I really don't think I should be here

[โ€“] dancing_sauce 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I saw this image the other day and thought I'd save it for confused reddit refugees hehe

[โ€“] SMT42 2 points 1 year ago

I never realized Mastodon was the same kind of system

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That is so much more elegant than I put it lol thank you!

[โ€“] MouldyPriestASSHOLE 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol somebody else replied above with this, but I figured you should definitely see it too: An infographic explaining how Lemmy is like Reddit, but with different communities on different servers, users can use one account to access all of lemmy, and how Mastodon is similar because it uses the same underlying framework