I know there are posts out there explaining this quite well, but I would love an ELI5 version. What is Lemmy and the Fediverse?

  • YahahaYouFoundMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So if I have an account on lemmy.world, can I post on lemmy.ml without creating an account there? If not, I don’t understand how all the instances “communicate” if I have to have multiple accounts to interact with each one.

    • scutiger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      A lemmy.world user can make posts on lemmy.ml and vice versa. You don’t need to be a member of the one you post to, but you need to be a member of any one of the federated instances. You can even start your own instance and be the only member on it if you like.

    • NumberedDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m not understanding this either. Do I see posts made by Lemmy.ml when I’m Lemmy.world? If I subscribe to a group like memes can people with a Lemmy.ml account also join it? Or is their meles group a different one?