What is an instance? what is a federation? what is a server? can someone please describe in simple terms how this all runs and how we as users navigate it?

  • Spzi@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Overall great explanation, accurate and short.

    The one thing I dislike is the usage of ‘lemmy’, which you seem to use as a synonym for ‘instance’. That is both inconsistent (you already established terms for that; ‘instance’ and ‘server’), and inaccurate.

    Lemmy is the whole, the network of federated and defederated instances.