First of all the r/ doesn’t apply here (okay, I’m being pedantic, sorry), but if I understood correctly what you’re asking, you can see any community from all instances. Each instance can also create a community of the same name (so in that case they wouldn’t be shared) but you can access !community@instance everywhere and it’s the same for all

[–] imkmiaw@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can regular pepole create these communities or is it locked to admins or specific people?

I just came from the Reddit exodus so I am still understanding how this works

[–] Tau@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on the policy of the instance where you are creating the account, for example, beehaw doesn't allow for creation of new communities but lemmy.ml does

[–] lunarshot@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

so on beehaw, how would I go about creating one? Requesting somewhere?

[–] Tau@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

beehaw has a strict policy on new communities, but you could create a new account on a another instance like sopuli.xyz and the create a new community there, then you can add your account on beehaw as a moderator

[–] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would "c/NFL" be the equivalent or is it "!NFL"?

I see both being used.

[–] ndr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I know that you use !NFL or !NFL@lemmy.nl !nfl@lemmy.ml to search and/or link

The link contains the c/nfl part but I don’t know if using c/nfl does anything

I’m pretty new 🥲