• @s_s
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    1 year ago

    An instance is like your email provider.

    You can (mostly) email anyone at any email address on any provider, but you still need a username and password to log in to your webmail.

    With lemmy, you can read and comment on any community, and respond to any user.

    e.g. You are from lemmy.world, this community is hosted on lemmy.world, but I’m from lemmy.one

    • @Tigerfishy@lemmy.world
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      91 year ago

      Brooooooooooooooo

      Thank you. I’ve been letting the instance concept just kind of float by undetected figuring I didn’t need to understand it to navigate it I suppose. But I much prefer to understand :) thanks for the concise wording