Forgive me if this is truly a stupid question but I cannot find the answer and I have been afraid to ask.

Am attaching a screen shot to assist my babbling below.

When surfing thru the various communities (and please feel free to correct me if I use a wrong term here) I will see many that have the same name but only difference is that at the end of that name, there is an ‘@xyz.ca’ or similar.

I assumed these were just the same communities only started on different servers?

However I have seen several - like the one where my arrow points to that doesn’t have an ‘@‘ location at the end of it. Can someone explain to me the difference here? Thanks

  • money_loo@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    That’s a good question, I thought I understood how it works and had typed out a pretty long response before I tested it myself, and you’re right it doesn’t work between servers at all for some reason.

    Normally you could search an instance up directly between servers and it would propagate, but kbin searches come up blank for your lemmy.world community.

    Either kbin is blocking lemmy.world searches or they aren’t federating, or maybe it’s deeper and kbin can’t interact as cleanly with the Lemmyverse as we thought.