For example searching for Python I see there is “Python” with 10 subs, and “[email protected]” with 100 subs.
I’m new too. But the @server means the community is hosted on another Lemmy site.
Your example specifically is https://lemmy.ml/c/python versus https://lemmy.world/c/python.
The one that has an @ in it is one a different instance than the one your account is on.
The one with no @ is from your own instance. The one with the @ is one from another instance.
So they are different? Posts in one not visible in the other?
Yeah they’re completely different communities that happen to have the same name.
Kind of confusing, I hope they do come up with an idea to merge them as users scale.
I think the whole point is to keep them from merging. No centralization. That way you can up and down vote servers along with post or block certain servers altogether. Now they might be able to incorporate it some way in the app where you could group common instances and assign your own categories. That would work pretty well.
Yeah exactly. I can see why they haven’t done it since it conflicts with the core idea.
I agree. Allowing users to tag their communities, or even have mods tag their communities with related neighbor communities could be a good solution.
I think there is something in the works that makes them multicommunities per default.
Decentralization is kinda the entire point of lemmy and other fediverse apps. There is no company, like reddit, facebook, etc. who controlls lemmy. Anyone can run their own lemmy instance however they feel like and create whatever communities they want.
I am having a hard time understanding this as well.
I created my account with lemmy.fmhy.ml but I’m struggling to kling to Lemmy world communities, do I need to make an account there or what? I can’t use my fmhy account there.
Also I’m using the Jeroba app for Android which it might complicate stuff.
you can easily subscribe to other communities from your fmhy account :)
I think this is tricky to accomplish from Jeroba app for Android then 😅
yeah I personally use it from my browser
I gotta agree that web mobile version is already better than Reddit’s LMAO.
Yep way better lol, I mainly use it from my desktop but even the mobile version is pleasant
Also please read our pinned faq
Lemmy is federated, as in there is more than one instance of Lemmy running, and they are all interconnected and synced to some degree via protocol.
So you’re able to interact with one community on one instance from another instance.
Kinda like how you can email someone with @gmail.com @yahoo.com
Or at least that’s my understanding. I just started learning about the Fediverse yesterday.
