this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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No Stupid Questions
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No such thing. Ask away!
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This is correct. Anyone can start a community on any Lemmy (Or KBin) server, and they can name it whatever they want. When a community is on a remote Lemmy instance, you see the @ suffix to help you see which one it is referring to. When no @ suffix is shown, that means that the community you are looking at is hosted on the instance that you are currently viewing Lemmy content through.
but it isn't the same communitiy. it's a completely different community on a different server, only with the same name. (and an omitted server name means it's on the one you're currently at.)
So is the idea that a community coalesces to a winner-takes-all single server, or is there a way to... uh ... federate (?) ... same-theme communities from different servers?
they are federated. you cannot only see all those communities, despite them being on various different servers, you can join and access all of them from each and every server. And the content gets sent through the network. As a user you can practically ignore the server part of a community. In this case it is important, in order to distinguish those communities because people created the community with the same name multiple times on multiple servers.