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Platform questions I couldn't find answers to (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by spiffyhippo@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
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Hi folks - I have a few questions that I promise I tried to answer myself via search, but I can't get clear answers:

  1. How does Lemmy handle identical usernames registered across different instances? I assume Lemmy isn't calling to every instance to check usernames on signup

  2. What considerations are there when determining what instance of Lemmy to create a community on?

  3. Has anyone deployed a Lemmy instance on Azure? I'm looking to go down that path

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[โ€“] Kichae@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

  1. Different instances are completely different websites, so it's no different from having different people using the same username on Tumblr and Reddit. The fact that the totally separate websites can share content doesn't affect that.

  2. You'd want to consider things like server-wide rules, how good the admins are, as well as things like server population size and whether that population seems like it would be interested in the topic. Like, you're probably not going to get very far trying to start c/AnarchoCapitalism on Lemmygrad.

  3. No idea.