Hi folks - I have a few questions that I promise I tried to answer myself via search, but I can’t get clear answers:

  1. How does Lemmy handle identical usernames registered across different instances? I assume Lemmy isn’t calling to every instance to check usernames on signup

  2. What considerations are there when determining what instance of Lemmy to create a community on?

  3. Has anyone deployed a Lemmy instance on Azure? I’m looking to go down that path

  • bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    1. It doesn’t. Duplicate usernames aren’t a problem if they’re on different instances. There can be @joe@lemmy.ml and @joe@lemmy.world

    2. Server rules and community feel.

    3. It was fairly easy to host mine on Oracle, but no idea on Azure.