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Showerthoughts
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.
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So if I'm understanding it correctly, Lemmy is the Federation and .world is the instance? And then within that instance are it's own communuties?
Not quite. Lemmy.world is the instance. I'm from the instance lemmy.sdf.org and I also hang out on feddit.uk . The instance names are just URLs (.world, .uk, and org are all like .com).
Handwavy explanation because I'm fuzzy on details: Federation is the magical interconnection between instance lemmy.sdf.org and instance lemmy.world that allows me to see posts/threads/users on the lemmy.world instance .
Hmmm...I think this is the best explanation I've had so far.
I certainly don't mean this negatively, but I get the impression a lot of the people here that actually understand it are also bad at explaining it to normies like me. And people like me are very much in the minority at this stage in the growth.
Aww, thank you.
It's a hazard of really knowing what you're talking about that leads to overestimating what other people know. I don't have that problem 😉. Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2501/ .
@fluke is this a joke?
@fluke in case this is not a joke, yes instances host communities, but the lemmy.world is just a domain name. Federation just means lemmy.world and another server/instance such as geddit.social can share and exchange communities, comments, and threads they host with each other. I'd be happy to answer additional questions you might have, but I'm not as expert as I don't share links in that format much.
Is what a joke?