My introduction to these platforms was through the android app. However I was lurking the last couple days and today the app broke so I decided to go to an instance directly.
I came to realize something was different when I stumbled upon a thread from /195 talking about how they changed their name because 196 on became more popular.
So my first question which I basically just want affirmation for is that every instance can have it's own communities that share the same name. But are other instances of the same community shared in a feed or do I have to search out each one individually?
Secondly usernames. Since I signed up with the same nick on multiple platforms I assume it's like an email system with Kritical@
However, do I have to register to every instance I wish to comment on or as long as they are sharing resources I should be able to post?
Literally my first post so I'm sure I could figure this out on my own but figure asking these questions may help others transitioning with the same questions.
Big fan of the platform. Fuck reddit and fuck /u/spez. This is what I'm looking for in a link aggregator.
So think of each instance as a mini reddit. lemmy.com/c/funny is not the same comunity as lemmy.org/c/funny but you can subscribe to both or one or neither.
Likewise your username is unique only on the instance you joined so there might be another Kritical on a different instance.