I am new and trying to understand how Lemmy works. I am posting this from my lemmy.world account, on a lemmy.ml community. It seems like you can read, post, subscribe to whatever community outside of the instance you’re registered with. So… Why register on lemmy.world vs lemmy.ml or any other instance, if all communities are accessible to everyone?

  • TeaHands@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Haven’t seen anyone mention this but some instances are themed around a topic or a country, with all their communities on that theme. So if you want your local feed to be on that theme, they’d be a good choice.

    Most instances are general though, so local is full of a bit of everything.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I guess that’s what I’m struggling with, say for example I’m into baking and there’s a baking community here on .world, but maybe there’s another one on .ml and wait here’s a good one on .ca or something. So I’ll be subscribing to three different baking communities in three different instances, it seems a bit redundant/divisive? But maybe it’s just because it’s early days, and with time the “best” communities will conglomerate and people will know the “best” baking community is on the .ml instances, but the best cooking one is on .world, etc, instead of subscribing to multiples of the same.