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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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Yeah absolutely. An instance is kind of your home group. It's not a "subreddit," more just a sorting method for links. The "subreddits" are the boards inside the instances, and the instances work to determine their addresses.
On Reddit you might have /r/nfl, /r/actualnfl, /r/realnfl, for example, while here you would have nfl@lemmy.world, nfl@other.instance, nfl@another.instance.
(People better at explaining or who are further along the process of understanding please feel free to correct me and chime in!)
An instance is like your email provider. When you get "messages", like "a new post was created", or "your comment got upvoted", it gets sent to your instance for you to read.
At the same time, instances are also email providers for communities/sublemmies, so when people post in a sub, the instance hosting that sub receives the "messages" from other instances in the Fediverse.