I put together a guide aimed at Redditors for Kbin and Lemmy!

https://beehaw.org/post/500098

I put together a guide aimed at Redditors for Kbin and Lemmy! - Beehaw

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join the same communities together

let me make sure I have this right:

  • there are separate Lemmy instances
  • I can chat with other people from other instances (like email)

if I wanted to join the same communities as a friend, do I need to join another instance or do posts 'live' on multiple instances? For instance, a community on 'cats.' There is one on {instance1} and {instance2}. They aren't the same, right?

There are some duplicate communities (e.g. cats@instance1 and cats@instance2 to use your example) but you can subscribe to and interact with either/both communities without leaving your chosen instance - you don't need to make multiple accounts.
Can I "combine" those communities? What about duplicate posts across communities? For example, there's likely to be multiple gaming communities, i don't mind subscribing to multiple, but I don't want to see the same posts from both. Alternatively, if one gaming community "wins" - basically becomes default: then what? Sounds like we'd be reliant on whoever owns that community again.

you cant combine them as such, you would have them both in your main feed though.

aggregated subscriptions are a feature being looked at for the future apparently though. which would be cool. you could have 5 different versions of one community, if one is outside of what you want to see you could block just one of them.