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

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Would be helpful for most new users to understand how Lemmy works and how the different hosts interact with each other in a basic way.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Senseibull
You can think of it like emails.

A lemmy community is like an automated mailbox that sends everything they receive to all subscribers.

You can host a mailing list/community on gmail.

Then you can subscribe to the mailing list from outlook.

Then a user can send a post to the mailing list from yahoo.

The automated mailbox at gmail will receive the message from yahoo and send it to outlook and all other subscribers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is more of an ELI75 lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ha ha, no 75 year old is going to understand that either.

[–] sprocket 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"What's an email? Is that like a phone?"

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

Lmao 🤣