• @Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
    2•19 days ago

    They can use it, but wouldn’t be able to interact with it as it wouldn’t be their instance.

    I thought any community only exists on a single instance that other instances can view and access, do you mean every community is copied to all the other instances?

    Every community is copied to all the other instances

    For instance my instance version of your community: https://reddthat.com/c/animorphs@sh.itjust.works

    • @Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2•19 days ago

      That’s very interesting, thank you for explaining that.

      I keep thinking I understand how basic federation works, and then something like this crops up haha.

      So if they click on my link, they’ll be able to view it but not interact with it because it isn’t on their instance?

      And each time a change is made in the animorphs community on any instance, that’s reflected to all animorphs communities on all instances?

      It sounds like nodes of a crypto.

      Then there can only be one animorphs community named “animorphs” and any other community would have to have a slightly different name?

      • @Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
        2•19 days ago

        So if they click on my link, they’ll be able to view it but not interact with it because it isn’t on their instance?

        Yes, their account wouldn’t work

        And each time a change is made in the animorphs community on any instance, that’s reflected to all animorphs communities on all instances?

        Correct

        Then there can only be one animorphs community named “animorphs” and any other community would have to have a slightly different name?

        Yours is the unique !animorphs@sh.itjust.works .

        Someone could create !animorphs@reddthat.com

        The same way bill@gmail.com is not bill@hotmail.com

        • @Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2•19 days ago

          That I get. But then that animorphs@reddthat.com would be a completely separate community, not just a mirror of my community on shit just works right?

          So if animorphs was really popular, I would see five different communities from different instances, and All five communities would be copied to an accessible on every instance?

          I think I get it if I have that right.

          Thanks again, I think my stumbling block here was I didn’t understand that a community was copied to every instance that accessed it. I thought the instances were completely independent and any instance could simply direct you to the instance a particular community was hosted on rather than every community being mirrored on every instance.

    • CommunityLinkFixerBot
      BEnglish
      1•19 days ago

      Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !animorphs@sh.itjust.works