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Are communities server-specific? i.e, is the "Gaming" community on lemmy.ml different from the one on, say, beehaw.org? (lemmy.ml)

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

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I have a question about communities. Are communities server-specific, for example, is the "Gaming" community on lemmy.ml different from the one on, say, beehaw.org and will I need to join both?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

O wait, the whole federation allows federation of just users and not communities?
So all this time I have been looking at posts just on the main instance and not posts across all instances?
fugggggggg so now I have to go search for communities of same name on all other instances as well and subscribe to them? ok, fine. How do I do this? there should really be something that automates this process

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, communities are the main federated item in lemmy.

For example, [email protected] is also viewable from here: https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]

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

I would argue that "viewable from" is a far cry from truly federated. The fact that I have to subscribe to infinitely many individual communities to see all, say, "Technology" content across all of lemmy seems like a near-fatal flaw to me.