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ELI5 how do the posts we make on lemmy.ca show up for the rest of the world or do we need to be posting on lemmy.world for that to happen? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As in the title, is lemmy.world like r/all? I'm just trying to get a handle on how this decentralized server angle works, and sorting out how to post beyond people on the lemmy.ca server. Can anyone explain it like I'm a moron, because I am.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The short answer is, your post is already showing up for everyone in the world. For example, I'm seeing and replying to this post from a different instance (not lemmy.ca).

How this works is because my instance (lemmy.blugatch.tube) is federated with your instance (lemmy.ca). As long as neither of our communities decides to block the other (de-federate), we will be able to interact with each other from our respective lemmy instances.

Or using a lemmy.world example, if you search for [email protected] in the list of communities on lemmy.ca, you should be able to read, subscribe, post, and comment there, all from your lemmy.ca account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just an addendum that maybe OP didn't understand: lemmy.world is not "special" in any way, it's just another instance, like lemmy.ca and lemmy.blugatch.tube