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So every lemmy instance is separate?
For instance, I'm on lemmy.world now, reading nba community. If those mods go nuclear and someone creates another nba community elsewhere, will I see those posts on lemmy.world?
edit: i get it now ... it's a different server with different community, but they can be "linked" and you can subscribe to communities from different servers from your own server and you can also comment on different servers too from your own little world
i have more questions though ... how do all these decentralized servers find each other and share information between instances? is it blockchain based? or is there a central server somewhere orchestrating it all ?
What do you mean with that?
It does not use blockchain or a central server, but instead uses the ActivityPub protocol, just like Mastodon. That's why Mastodon users can see some Lemmy posts and the other way around.
ok thanks . by linked i meant this fediverse thing. I was reading here on reddit