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  • What is link aggregation? Just combining network connections of a cloud? What does that have to do with lemmy?

    When you make a new post you see that you can either link to something or make a text post. This posting of links is what Link Aggregation means. But Lemmy (and reddit which is also touted as a link aggregator) is much more than that.

    Why would there by different servers in the first place doesn’t that make the social media smaller for everyone?

    The servers talk between each other, thats how I (from feddit.org) can read your (you coming from lemmy.world) post here (lemmy.ml) So it makes the network much much much larger for everyone.

    What is an instance?

    Compare it with a server that hosts the same application (lemmy) or compatible applications (mbin, piefed,…). Whats posted and shared on one instance is then shared to everyone else that instance is federated to.

    Isn’t the point of a federalized social media to be better connected?

    yup.