For example searching for Python I see there is “Python” with 10 subs, and “Python@lemmy.ml” with 100 subs.

      • Eddie Hitler@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • aski3252@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • aidnic@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    1 year ago

    The one with no @ is from your own instance. The one with the @ is one from another instance.

  • kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Dax87@forum.stellarcastle.net
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.