Hi, I’m figuring this out too. Veterans, please feel free to correct me!
- If you create a community on kbin, it does not prevent a community with the same name from being created on another site. We have a ‘music’ community here (kbin.social/m/music), but lemmy.world has a ‘music’ community too (lemmy.world/c/music).
(kbin calls them /m/agazines, lemmy calls 'em /c/ommunities, if you’re wondering about the ‘m’ vs ‘c’ in the URLs lol.)
- Yes! Because Fediverse magic, you can actually interact with the lemmy.world ‘music’ community without leaving kbin.social. Try it out from kbin.social/m/music@lemmy.world.
You may notice this @[object]@[place] pattern a fair bit.
For example, our own ‘music’ community is @music@kbin.social. The lemmy.world ‘music’ community is @music@lemmy.world. Your account is @Spider-Man@kbin.social. See if you can spot users or threads that are from other sites! They’re probably already in front of you!
As a second experiment, see if you can visit the music community from beehaw.org, without leaving kbin.social. They have one too, but you don’t need a beehaw.org account to participate there!
Yes, this is correct.
As opposed to the thinking of a lot of people, being able to have duplicate communities on each instance is a feature, not a bug. It is a very good way to give people freedom of choice if, for instance, a mod for a community on one instance is taking the community in a bad direction.