Yes, you are correct.
But like you said, since u can see the communities on other servers and subscribe to them, you don't have to miss anything.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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My issue was Lemmy.ml just leaves every subscription of mine on pending. No idea why.
I think pending means the server is still processing it and since the performance problems all instances are having there is some delay.
You are telling lemmy.world that you want to subscribe to lemmy.ml so it has to synchronize it but since both instances are very busy it takes a while to process. Not very sure on this one though but I guess .world has to communicatie with .ml for the subscription.
I'm still a Lemmy noob too, but it seems like even a "pending" subscription causes posts from that community to show up in my subscribed feed, so lurking isn't affected very heavily.
I guess.
I thought it will take an hour or so. It has been a few days... Hahaha.
Just have to wait I guess. The admins are probably overwhelmed these few days. Fking Reddit.
A few days is a very long time indeed but I only joined today so I might have it completely wrong.
Think of it like email. Same email can exist @gmail or @icloud or @outlook. Itβs generally good for everyone to rally behind the same one though but itβs not a requirement.
Thanks!
why is it good? i thought the whole point was not to do centralization like that? I am having some trouble wrapping my headaround the idea of federated communities so I coud be missing something.
I think itβs fine to centralize communities has long as the instances federated together can access it. Certainly it doesnβt make sense to have dozens of News communities but as long as Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, etc can access the main one, then Iβm fine. Maybe Iβll change my mind later on.
Think of an instance as a website, if reddit was on Lemmy, it would be an instance. Communities are subreddits. The reason you see other communities on different instances is because admins from both instances have agreed to basically share the community.
Sounds about right. Thanks!