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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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I think part of that is the confusion around communities, how does a community on each instance mesh together? As people are being pushed away from the primary Lemmy instance due to overloading, the smaller ones look far less populated and lead people to feel that it’s a ghost town.
So when I follow /c/memes, am I following the one on my instance, the one on the first instance that created it or a hybrid of both?
You're following the original. If I started a sub in lemmy.one and you then move to lemmy.ml, you can still sub to the original one. You don't need to be in a particular sub's instance to participate in it. It's great, right?
Edit: I suck at explanations.
Each instance has its own communities and they're separate from each other. If someone created a /memes/ community on another instance it would be its own thing, but people from other instances would still be able to view it.
To view a community on another instance you'd have to put the instance name in the URL. For example, if there was an instance called "coolinstance.com" with a community called "stuff", then for users on the coolinstance.com instance the URL for that community would be coolinstance.com/c/stuff. If there was another instance called reallycoolinstance.com, they'd still be able to see the "stuff" community, but to them the URL would be reallycoolinstance.com/c/stuff@coolinstance.com. They'd also be able to create their own "stuff" community, and people on coolinstance.com could access it by going to coolinstance.com/c/stuff@reallycoolinstance.com.