• @ChocoboRocket
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    1 year ago

    I’m clearly not understanding this platform as well as I thought, I should probably watch a video or something!

    The memes and boobs are great, but I’d love to get more reliable news and local information, seems like every Canadian one dies or is unpopular (fair enough given the limited user base which is still kind of nice)

    And the news + politics seems to crash, but that’s because I’m still using .World …I think?

    • @duckington
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      101 year ago

      The way it works is that there’s not one lemmy site, there’s many different sites, or “instances” that people can host on their own servers—lemmy.world and lemm.ee are two of these. The catch is that they are “federated”, meaning that a user in one instance can see, vote on, comment on, etc posts from another instance. That’s why you can be on lemmy.world and see posts from [email protected]. So if lemmy.world goes down it’s as simply as typing in another instance to your address bar :^)

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        However, all the communities hosted on lemmy.world will be inaccessible while it is down. If you really only care to look at one of those at a particular moment, lemmy might as well be down for you.

        • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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          61 year ago

          They’ll still be accessible, since instances store local copies of data from servers that they’re federated. Your interactions with those communities will be invisible to anyone outside your own instance until the instance hosting the community comes back up, though.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      It’s more like email than a regular platform. Each insurance is a Lemmy “provider” but from any instance you can reach every other instance. It even used the @server for user names and communities like email. It also means you have a [email protected], [email protected], …

    • @big_slap
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      1 year ago

      think of all of this like email, you get data from other providers and interact with people and posts using an “email address”. im oversimplifying it, but that’s how i started to wrap my head around all of this