Yeah, so the terminology can get weird, and the Reddit comparison is tricky Because you have to imagine multiple Reddits (the platform, not subreddits) for it to really work.
Servers and Instances are used pretty interchangeably - each one is privately operated, and you pick the one you want to sign up on - startrek.website is one of these instances.
Each instance can host its own “Communities” - there are like subreddits. We’re hosting three right now, /c/startrek, /c/daystrominstitute, and /c/risa.
The neat-but-complicated part is that each instance can communicate with other instances, so if you want to subscribe to a community on a server other than the one you signed up for, you can (within reasons, as there are mechanisms for instances to isolate themselves or block other instances from communication if they choose to do so).
So yeah, you can look at startrek.website as a mini-reddit with three Trek-related subreddits…but you can also use it as a springboard to subscribe to other subreddits on other mini-reddits.
Thank you for the response. One more question. For today. I don’t want to be exhausting.
From your explanation, I get why Risa in the screenshot below shows in the lower left corner as startrek.website/c/risa because Risa is hosted by startrek.website. edited Star Trek to startrek.website where applicable because I had an “a-ha!” moment of getting it.
In this next screenshot I took, does [email protected], as an example, show (in the lower left corner of the image) as startrek.website/c/[email protected] because beehaw.org or [email protected] is an instance of startrek.website? edit – hmm. The links in this paragraph show as clickable hyperlinks. The Risa link in the previous paragraph did not.
You’re seeing that because you’re tabbed over to “All” instead of “Local” - That’s probably showing you, at a minimum, all the communities, from all the instances, that people visited from. So in that example, you’re looking at https://beehaw.org/c/technology which is on a different instance.
I believe it’s because of federation. Beehaw.org is a “symbolic” subdomain of startrek.website since you’re accessing from your account at startrek.website.
Yeah, so the terminology can get weird, and the Reddit comparison is tricky Because you have to imagine multiple Reddits (the platform, not subreddits) for it to really work.
Servers and Instances are used pretty interchangeably - each one is privately operated, and you pick the one you want to sign up on - startrek.website is one of these instances.
Each instance can host its own “Communities” - there are like subreddits. We’re hosting three right now, /c/startrek, /c/daystrominstitute, and /c/risa.
The neat-but-complicated part is that each instance can communicate with other instances, so if you want to subscribe to a community on a server other than the one you signed up for, you can (within reasons, as there are mechanisms for instances to isolate themselves or block other instances from communication if they choose to do so).
So yeah, you can look at startrek.website as a mini-reddit with three Trek-related subreddits…but you can also use it as a springboard to subscribe to other subreddits on other mini-reddits.
Thank you for the response. One more question. For today. I don’t want to be exhausting.
From your explanation, I get why Risa in the screenshot below shows in the lower left corner as startrek.website/c/risa because Risa is hosted by startrek.website. edited Star Trek to startrek.website where applicable because I had an “a-ha!” moment of getting it.
https://i.imgur.com/VqLtssM.jpeg
In this next screenshot I took, does [email protected], as an example, show (in the lower left corner of the image) as startrek.website/c/[email protected] because beehaw.org or [email protected] is an instance of startrek.website? edit – hmm. The links in this paragraph show as clickable hyperlinks. The Risa link in the previous paragraph did not.
https://i.imgur.com/WmyADsP.jpeg
I took both screenshots while logged in to my Lemmy Star Trek account. I’m currently only subscribed to Star Trek.
You’re seeing that because you’re tabbed over to “All” instead of “Local” - That’s probably showing you, at a minimum, all the communities, from all the instances, that people visited from. So in that example, you’re looking at https://beehaw.org/c/technology which is on a different instance.
I have learned new things today. Thank you all for taking time to answer!
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I believe it’s because of federation. Beehaw.org is a “symbolic” subdomain of startrek.website since you’re accessing from your account at startrek.website.
Okay. So if I had joined a beehaw.org site, and pulled up this Star Trek site, then the web address would show as beehaw.org/c/startrek.website.
@Nmyownworld
Correct