Not sure if I understand this, but I think the way the lemmy federation works is:
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there are multiple servers in the federation (for example, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemmy.whatever, etc.)
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each server can have multiple communities, which are like subreddits
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so, for example, each server can have its own community for photography.
Q1: is my summary correct?
Q2: is there a way to subscribe to multiple related communities across different servers and “merge” those communities into a single view? so that I don’t have to click on each separate one? edit: for example, if there are 3 servers that each have a photography community, can I merge them into a single “photography” view?
Sorry if this is a silly question (or if the answer is obvious).
Yes.
No.
Though from what I seen people try to limit what communities they create to not have 10 variations on the same topic.
Does Lemmy have a feature where an instance owner can alias a community on a different server?
Say there’s a lemmy.ml c/llamas and a beehaw c/llamas, and lemmy.ml agrees to just redirect [email protected] to [email protected]. Is that currently possible? Is it on the desired feature list?
Not at the moment. But there are a lot of new feature requests pouring in, so anything is possible long term.