Would be helpful for most new users to understand how Lemmy works and how the different hosts interact with each other in a basic way.
It’s Reddit but federated. A federated service is one that works like e-mail, i.e. there are multiple providers/servers/instances but all of them are connected so it doesn’t matter which one you choose. Additionally, Lemmy is federated to other services (e.g. Mastodon), forming what’s known as the Fediverse.
Thank you! Good answer. ___
So one thing I don’t understand is, how do all the federated servers find each other? Is there one server that maintains the registrations to all other servers and each server can pull from there? What happens if that central server decides to delete another server from it’s list, doesn’t that put authority back into one server/persons hands? Or does each server maintain their own list of federated servers and if so you never know if you’re fully connected / how much time would that take each server owner?
No, there’s no central server. To my knowledge, servers federate either manually or by their users manually exploring other servers. But most servers at the moment are already federated with each other.
Very interesting - thank you!!
The best way i can describe it is with Runescape. Users can access different worlds(or “instances”) and every world runs the game. However unlike runescape every world is independently run and which world you form your account on determines which other worlds you can see and interact with.
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