As the title indicates, how does Lemmy work?

I recently inquired in a couple other communities about necessities (whether it be hardware or software, ect) and guidance to create a server/instance and decided I may be better off understanding how this realm works and operates as my starting point, then move into the hardware side, then continue to the Sofware and setup.

  • ivy@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    How do usernames work? If someone has a username on one instance, can someone else register the username on another instance? If so, how are they distinguished?

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yes, you can have same usernames on different instances.

      The full username is always @user@address.

      So I’m @barbarian@sh.itjust.works. There’s also a @barbarian@lemmy.ml (that’s also me, I stopped using it to help with server load, but ignore that part :P). Servers and people can distinguish between the two users because it always includes where the user is from.