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What's a Lemmy group?
Lemmy and other Fediverse applications use the ActivityPub protocol under the hood. The ActivityPub protocol has something called "groups", which Lemmy uses as communities. So groups and communities are the same thing essentially but other software (like Mastodon) calls groups something else and not necessarily communities. But I'm not an expert.
Thanks for clearing that up!
If it's a community, OK. If it's something else, I definately want to know that too.
It's a community
That was exactly my thought when asking. But it seems it's the former.
There's a very long history of calling things like lemmy communities "groups". In my case I'm old and the habit comes from Usenet.
My first exposure to that interchangable use in the Lemmy lexicon. Now I Know!