It's like each server is it's own reddit and that server can have it's own subreddits. You can start a subreddit (community) with the same name on two different servers even.

The weirdness is, each server can talk to the other one so it doesn't matter which one you are a member of. You can see all of them.

[–] eusousuperior@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So lemmy.world is a lemmy server, lemmy is the protocol?

[–] Einlander@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

ActivityPub is the protocol. https://activitypub.rocks/

[–] Einlander@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

Until you start dealing with defederation. People on Beehaw don't see posts from lemmy.world and lemmy.world gets no updated posts from Beehaw. You don't really want to join a server that's siloed off from other servers involuntary. The users then have to go out of their way to content, especially if they like to use /all