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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2026
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One thing, what's the difference between an instance and a community?
Ok in terms of technical terms an instance is a particular website running a particular fediverse software i.e. lemmy.ca, thelemmy.club, piefed.social.
A community is the name for a "subreddit" of which any given instance hosts many (and different instances can have communities about the same thing, which happens with bigger topics sometimes).
The names... aren't ideal but also you don't need to remember any of this really.
And just to fully tie this up, the federated part means the users of an instance, can join a community, even when it's hosted by a different instance, and interact there with users from many instances.