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submitted 1 year ago by squeakyelbows@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hello there!

Lemmy is a federated social platform. What does this mean for me? It means that you could be on any instance, and talk to most other instances.

What is an instance? An instance of lemmy is just a single individual lemmy server. You can host your own on a VPS if you want!

An instance is a single copy of the software running on a single physical or virtual server. If you run two copies of the software on the same physical or virtual server, that counts as two instances.

https://www.nginx.com/Resources

I am on lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz, and I am able to interact with you, a lemmy.blahaj.zone user, on lemmy.blahaj.zone!

This is the power of a federated community!

[-] squeakyelbows@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Do I have to create a new login for every lemmy site I use?

[-] Super_Stone@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

You dont. My account is from the german instance feddit.de and I can see, post and comment on many different instances. The only reason to have different accounts is to access an instance that defederated from the one you were using since they cant contact each other. But with some exceptions you are better off not visiting those instances anyways because they often are full of trolls, neocons or tankies: people that dont deserve a platform.

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