Not really - it only matters if the instance where you have your account (e.g. lemmy.world, in your case) is not federated with another instance (e.g., beehaw.org).
As long as your instances are federated, you’ll be able to see everything on the other instance and vice versa.
There are weird states, such as instance A being federated to instance B but B not being federated to A. This means that users on A can see, comment, and (potentially? I think?) create posts for communities on B but no other instance (B, C, or otherwise) can see those comments/posts.
Does it matter which server your account is? Asking because I am a NooB. Or nOOb? 🤔🙄
Not really - it only matters if the instance where you have your account (e.g. lemmy.world, in your case) is not federated with another instance (e.g., beehaw.org).
As long as your instances are federated, you’ll be able to see everything on the other instance and vice versa.
There are weird states, such as instance A being federated to instance B but B not being federated to A. This means that users on A can see, comment, and (potentially? I think?) create posts for communities on B but no other instance (B, C, or otherwise) can see those comments/posts.
Federated… instances? I really don’t think I should be here
I saw this image the other day and thought I’d save it for confused reddit refugees hehe
That is so much more elegant than I put it lol thank you!
I never realized Mastodon was the same kind of system
Neat
…what
Lol somebody else replied above with this, but I figured you should definitely see it too:![An infographic explaining how Lemmy is like Reddit, but with different communities on different servers, users can use one account to access all of lemmy, and how Mastodon is similar because it uses the same underlying framework](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/782a5fff-504e-47c0-936e-f255d16a3d69.png)