What is an instance? what is a federation? what is a server? can someone please describe in simple terms how this all runs and how we as users navigate it?
What is an instance? what is a federation? what is a server? can someone please describe in simple terms how this all runs and how we as users navigate it?
Thank you for this.
How does one go about finding communities from other instances and connect with them?
Use your instance’s search feature. You can search
No Stupid Questions!nostupidquestions@lemmy.worldhttps://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestionsFirst option won’t work if your instance hasn’t federated the community yet. The last option is best in my opinion.
Some small addition to the last option:
If you want to browse a community from a specific instance on your home instance you have to add the ‘home’ instance.
For example your home instance (where you did register your account) is Lemmy.ml and the community you want to interact with is on Lemmy.world you would use:
Https://Lemmy.ml/c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
In order to be able to post, reply etc
https://lemmyverse.net/ is a great tool for searching for communities and instances.
https://browse.feddit.de is great and so is https://subs.rehab