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How I'm beginning to make sense of it is by thinking that each instance is a completely separate "reddit". The admins of each instance are as powerful as spez or any other reddit admin.
The community subdivision is then just that, a subdivision within a custom reddit rather than a "subreddit" under the centralized "main reddit website".
The federalization aspect of it is then completely alien, but understandable. At least to me!
I was trying to wrap my head around it yesterday, in the sense that there's a lemmy.ml/c/music AND a beehaw.org/c/music which are completely different communities with (mostly) different users and different posts, but I can sub to both and post on both. Now, on the one hand that may get a little confusing, but in reality it's no different to there being two different subreddits that both focus on music posting.
It definitely takes a moment to stop the reddit brain from thinking of everything being on one website. If we picked up the hotlink convention it would probably solve all that confusion:
That'd also make the email comparison clearer while providing solid examples of federation.
I have a feeling that as time goes by (and if Lemmy sees more migration) we'll end up with everyone choosing a de facto default server for each community. Which kind of defeats the purpose.