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Short answer: yes, you got it.
Long answer: yes, but you'll see it's not like magic. Some instances will federate with others, some will straightup block others, some will simply not federate, etc... but those are very extreme cases with very particular reasons.
Well partially correct, they are different servers and yes you can use any instance to view other communities but lemmy.ml/c/bob123 and lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/bob123 aren't the same community despite having the same name. Both would be accessible via either instance e.g on fmhy you could access lemmy.ml/c/bob123 from lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected] and on lemmy.ml you could access lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/bob123 from lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]/
Like right now you're asking asklemmy from fmhy using the url https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected] but if i went and made a community called asklemmy on fmhy it wouldn't be the same community as the one on lemmy.ml
Hmm perhaps my explanation is too confusing ๐
Would there ever be a way to synchronize content between communities on different servers? What I see as the problem here is that there may be, let's say, several Zelda communities on different servers, all with different content, so it would become difficult to follow all. Or is there any mechanism in place to prevent communities from being replicated?
Not that im aware of but what I have noticed is that you can cross-post across instances. Although most people just look for the most active community for the particular topic and follow it
When I visit the same community from different instances, I don't see all the posts listed. Is the instance just slow to update? For example:
Home instance - https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/freemediaheckyeah/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1
https://reddthat.com/c/[email protected]/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1
https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1
The other instances haven't updated yet to show the latest posts.
We had a minor issue with federation, it's been resolved now :)
Yup. It's like email.
You can have a gmail account, but still send and receive to and from someone with a hotmail account.
The emails that you both see, are stored on gmail and hotmail, but not on protonmail, unless you cc'd someone with a protonmail, in which case, it gets stored and becomes accessible, there too.
Personally, I don't think the e-mail comparison is very clear, nor entirely correct.
I think it's easier to explain like: everybody can make their own Reddit, but you can also see all the content on other people's Reddits.