You don’t need to join lemmy.world. Just a heads up.
I’ve seem this metaphor around and will try to replicate here. Lemmy (and kbin) instances are like email providers, you can have an email from Google, outlook, Proton, etc. and they all can send emails to each other. Lemmy instances are like this, if you have an account in an instance, you can see content and interact with all the other instances.
Some instances don’t talk to each other (defederate) for a myriad of reasons, but mostly because of political opinions and trolls. Here’s a link with a more in depth explanation of how defederation works, from when it happened with one of the big instances on lemmy: https://lemmy.world/post/149743
Okay thanks that made a lot of sense in that link.
How does this affect moderation of comments? If my comment propagates to all federated instances can it be deleted by anybody?
Also how does one start a community? Do you have to have your own instance in order to launch your own community?
I think only the admins of the instance and mods of the community (and you) can delete your comment. Afaik your comment is only cached on other instances.
Reports go for admins and mods I think too https://lemmy.cloudaf.site/post/59357
Anyone can create a community. From the looks of it, sync doesn’t support it yet(?). But if you go to your instance on your browser you can create it from there on the top right settings.
