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

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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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[-] sexy_peach@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

You can follow both, that's the federation.

[-] testman@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Is it?
On Mastodon I can take a look at "Federated timeline" and see the posts from the people that I have not followed. Because instances already federate by themselves (due to some other user on my instance following the user on other instance) but yes, I see your point

[-] iod@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Yep. Would be cool if we could subscribe to tags or topics so to speak. The 2 related gaming communities could then be grouped together in a federated view for the topic "Gaming". At least for reading comments, not sure how posting would work.

[-] spinoza_the_jedi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

You know, I actually really like the idea of tags. I don’t currently have an issue with manually subscribing to similar communities on different servers (I’m often just browsing “all” to see all communities and all servers). But being able to subscribe to a tag would be cool. Then I could more easily identify and opt out of the communities I don’t like that match those tags.

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