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?

      • Lui@sh.itjust.worksOP
        9·
        1 year ago

        Thank you so much for the breakdown. I’m gonna reference back to this a lot while i try to wrap my head around this new space. I’m shocked at the amount of informative replies i’ve received and your guys’ good-spirited attitude towards reddit transplants like myself.

        I was a long time reddit lurker but I feel compelled to post and it’s responses like yours that made me feel comfortable doing so.

        TLDR: Thank you so much to everyone who broke it down for me. I’m having lots of fun in this space because of y’all and I am so excited to continue contributing to it.

      • Nighed@sffa.community
        3·
        1 year ago

        When you visit other instances through your home instance there is a delay/difference though as I assume your home instance has to get info from the remote instance before it can show it to you?

        Or is that just because my account is on a tiny instance and I’m the first one visiting a lot of the communities?

        • T156@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 year ago

          When you visit other instances through your home instance there is a delay/difference though as I assume your home instance has to get info from the remote instance before it can show it to you?

          Yes, but it helps if someone else on your home instance has subscribed before, since it would already have that information.

          Or is that just because my account is on a tiny instance and I’m the first one visiting a lot of the communities?

          Also probably this.