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Posting on other instances? (lemmy.cloudhub.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I like that Lemmy can post on other instances (communities on other instances), but thinking about it, would that not present a potential issue with centralizing information about a topic on one instance?

I know it's kind of similar to having themed Mastodon instances (and I also don't really understand those), but it seems like a potential issue?

I know multiple instances can have the same communities, but that then seems like fracturing the conversation?

Could this just be due to my limited knowledge/use of the fediverse?

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[–] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yes, right, that is how it works with subscribing to a community.

Though, if I’m on my instance, and select a community from another instance to post in, the post ends up on that community and I have a copy of it (it seems, that’s what I did in this case).

Another comment mentions that if the community went away, I’d still have a copy of the content, which is interesting, though not entirely useful for picking up where the original community left off?