So my understanding is that a community created on a certain server (say lemmy.world), can be interacted with by any other federated server, and any interactions from those servers are synced to the original “true” community / server. How does it work if two servers both have a community with the same name? Each server is the owner of content created there, and then Lemmy is just merging the communities with identical names so posts from both appear under server.com/c/Music?
/c/Music on server A could have drastically different rules from /c/Music on server B, so there’s potential for users on both to see posts that wouldn’t be allowed on their server?
I’m still learning all this stuff too, so anybody please correct me if I’m wrong here, but to my understanding: They just exist alongside each other. They might locally have the same name but they’d have different URLs with the @[instance] suffix.
In your case, since you’re a lemmy.world account, if you wanted to go to “music” communities, you’d navigate to:
That’s correct.