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[Weekly thread] How are you people doing with your niche communities? (reddthat.com)
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[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing, I didn't know about it!

Link: !animorphs@sh.itjust.works

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does the link in my post not show up on other instances unless I type it that way?

I still don't understand formatting very well.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Your link is directly to your instance, the one I used (with the ! in front) redirects to the instance of the reader

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So users on other instances can't use the link in my post? Or they can't see the link?

I thought any community only exists on a single instance that other instances can view and access, do you mean every community is copied to all the other instances?

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They can use it, but wouldn't be able to interact with it as it wouldn't be their instance.

I thought any community only exists on a single instance that other instances can view and access, do you mean every community is copied to all the other instances?

Every community is copied to all the other instances

For instance my instance version of your community: https://reddthat.com/c/animorphs@sh.itjust.works

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's very interesting, thank you for explaining that.

I keep thinking I understand how basic federation works, and then something like this crops up haha.

So if they click on my link, they'll be able to view it but not interact with it because it isn't on their instance?

And each time a change is made in the animorphs community on any instance, that's reflected to all animorphs communities on all instances?

It sounds like nodes of a crypto.

Then there can only be one animorphs community named "animorphs" and any other community would have to have a slightly different name?

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So if they click on my link, they’ll be able to view it but not interact with it because it isn’t on their instance?

Yes, their account wouldn't work

And each time a change is made in the animorphs community on any instance, that’s reflected to all animorphs communities on all instances?

Correct

Then there can only be one animorphs community named “animorphs” and any other community would have to have a slightly different name?

Yours is the unique !animorphs@sh.itjust.works .

Someone could create !animorphs@reddthat.com

The same way bill@gmail.com is not bill@hotmail.com

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That I get. But then that animorphs@reddthat.com would be a completely separate community, not just a mirror of my community on shit just works right?

So if animorphs was really popular, I would see five different communities from different instances, and All five communities would be copied to an accessible on every instance?

I think I get it if I have that right.

Thanks again, I think my stumbling block here was I didn't understand that a community was copied to every instance that accessed it. I thought the instances were completely independent and any instance could simply direct you to the instance a particular community was hosted on rather than every community being mirrored on every instance.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That I get. But then that animorphs@reddthat.com would be a completely separate community, not just a mirror of my community on shit just works right?

Correct

So if animorphs was really popular, I would see five different communities from different instances, and All five communities would be copied to an accessible on every instance?

Yes, !movies@lemm.ee and !movies@lemmy.world for instance are completely different communities

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Okay, cool. Thanks for going into all that with me, I'm always looking to better understand.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

Happy to help!

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 1 points 5 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !animorphs@sh.itjust.works