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Can someone explain the Fediverse to me In simple terms? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ClaireDeLuna@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I get the general gist, like email different instances can communicate with each other but beyond that I'm lost.

I'm sorry if this has been asked 1,000 times lol

Edit: Thanks for the answers this makes more sense now :)

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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You've got it mostly right. But this part is wrong:

is everything from Lemmy.world only going to show up on the popular feed (if I’m on that instance) or can other things like lemmy.ee or whatever also show up?

(assuming you're on desktop browser) If you want to browse only lemmy.world communities, click on "local" at the top:

"Subscribed" is all communities you specifically subscribed to (on any instance in the lemmyverse) and "All" is everything on lemmy.world AND all communities anyone on lemmy.world is subscribed to.

(fwiw, my account is on a different instance, startrek.website, but I subscribed to this community, so I saw your post in my "subscribed" feed).