I'm new too. But the @server means the community is hosted on another Lemmy site.
Your example specifically is https://lemmy.ml/c/python versus https://lemmy.world/c/python.
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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
Formatting
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/community@instance.com)
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
or instance.com/c/community
FAQ:
Q: Why do I get a 404?
A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.
Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?
A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
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The one that has an @ in it is one a different instance than the one your account is on.
So they are different? Posts in one not visible in the other?
Yeah they're completely different communities that happen to have the same name.
Kind of confusing, I hope they do come up with an idea to merge them as users scale.
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.
Yeah exactly. I can see why they haven't done it since it conflicts with the core idea.
I agree. Allowing users to tag their communities, or even have mods tag their communities with related neighbor communities could be a good solution.
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.
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.
Also please read our pinned faq
you can easily subscribe to other communities from your fmhy account :)
I think this is tricky to accomplish from Jeroba app for Android then 😅
yeah I personally use it from my browser
I gotta agree that web mobile version is already better than Reddit's LMAO.
Yep way better lol, I mainly use it from my desktop but even the mobile version is pleasant
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.
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