Found a good image explanation of this whole thing.

Edit: update image to use light theme.

Credit goes to @ulu_mulu@lemmy.world

  • TheDarkBanana87@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hello, thank you for the post,

    This clears up a few things for me, because the concept of Fediverse are still “abstract” for me.

    When i first join, I created multiple accounts on lemmy.world, beehaw, lemmy.ml, because i thinks its mini Reddit, with its own content, and its own account.

    Now i know that i only need one account, and i can still see the post from another instances.

    There’s still some questions that i can’t understand

    1. The decentralized nature of the Fediverse, how does one search or now what community on another instances?

    2. Say when in Reddit, we have /r/aww for example, it means that lemmy, beehaw, or another instances can have their own /c/aww ? does it means that we have multiple instances of /c/aww or, we have one single /c/aww but distributed between multiple instances

    Sorry for the bad English :D