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Communities with the same name on different servers? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by SoCalChris@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/general_discussion@lemmy.fmhy.ml

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How do communities work across servers? For instance, I registered my account on server A, and create a community named MyCommunity on Server A. Someone who's registered on Server B can access MyCommunity by going to !MyCommunity@ServerA.

Now if someone else on Server B decides to create a community also called MyCommunity on Server B, I could access that by going to !MyCommunity@ServerB.

My question is, with the MyCommunity communities ever sync across Server A and Server B? Or will they remain completely separated since they're on different servers? Will things posted to !MyCommunity@ServerA ever show up for people that have only subscribed to !MyCommunity@ServerB, or are these kept completely separate?

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[–] spwyll@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is a case where the email analogy is perfect. In your question you create an address "email@gmail.com" and someone else creates an address "email@yahoo.com." Both accounts will be able to send email to each other and anyone else can send or receive email to/from both addresses. But email sent to "email@gmail.com" will not show up at "email@yahoo.com" nor vice versa.