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[–] MoonKitten@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. If you select ‘local’ you’ll only see local communities but you’ll see other’s posts and comments on there. If you select ‘all’ you’ll see communities from all federated instances. The instances just share stuff between themselves as long as their federated. If there is a ‘bad’ instance then your local instance might decide to not federate with them.

[–] tbe@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What would be nice is when instances could merge their communities so there aren’t many dedicated duplicates, like I could imagine there are for example LEGO-communities on 7 instances and the according owners of those communities could initiate that they want to merge with others so everyone can post wherever they are but have a common community-feed.

[–] MoonKitten@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Agreed, tools / protocols for merging communities or migrating them and user accounts between instances would be good. But it's a nice start and I like that it seems like it's going back to the old days of services like email, usenet and irc.