Lemmy instances

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New to Lemmy, What are instances and how do they work? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am a little confused on how the whole system works. I am also trying to log in to the android Lemmy client however nothing I put in the instances field seems to work

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Instances are servers running Lemmy software that communicate with each other using the ActivityPub protocol (on top of other Internet protocols). Members of one server (instance) can read and comment on posts on another Lemmy server (instance) without leaving their server. I hope that helps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

Only if federation is enabled and both servers are either in allowlist of each other or just not in blocklist, depending on the settings of those instances.