We have received numerous reports from users about the closure of the c/android community. While we fully support the original community owners’ decision to move to another instance, it will eventually be necessary to open up the community on Lemmy.world. The beauty of the fediverse is that multiple communities on the same subject can exist in different instances. However, if you can no longer moderate a community on Lemmy for any reason, it is important to pass it on to individuals who are willing and able to do so.
To ensure the best interests of our instance members, it is necessary to establish boundaries. Holding onto a community name cannot be a permanent arrangement. It’s important to consider our users’ ongoing interest in the community if they wish it to continue. While we acknowledge the objective of consolidating communities, current community members ultimately decide whether they wish to join the new community at lemdro.id.
To ensure a smooth transition, we will keep the community locked for another week, providing ample time to inform the active user base about the move to the new instance at https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected].
Kind of, I still have a lot to learn.
So lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are two separate instances right? And then the communities on those instances are like subreddits for lack of better terms?
Think of it like email.
The email provider is the instance:
Google, Yahoo, outlook, etc
The community/user is your email address:
Android@gmail, Android@yahoo
Because they are different providers you can have the same name since it’s the only one on that provider.
@nosut @ThatGirlKylie I am on both lemmy.world and mastodon.social and it works like a charm
A subreddit can be uniquely identified like this
/r/games. Once that name is taken, no other sub can have it.A Lemmy community is identified like this: [email protected]. Notice it has a name part and a server part, both are necessary to uniquely identify the community. [email protected] is a different community with different mods and different posts/comments (unless someone crosspost, but then it’s still two different posts with mostly the same text inside). You can mostly access any community on any server from your account, mostly irrespective of what server your account is on.
But similarly named communities on different servers are different communities. They are analogous to /r/DnD vs /r/dndnext. Similar topic, different subs, same with those Lemmy communities.
Yeah:
Instances = Servers
Communities /c/ = Subreddits /r/
Basically, yes. And it’s not too much of a stretch to think of lemmy.world and lemmy.ml as two separate Reddits that share with each other, so anyone on either one can access stuff on both.
So two communities that both have the same name but are on different instances are actually two entirely separate places since they’re on two entirely separate “Reddits”. One is [email protected] and the other is [email protected].
Yes, essentially.