I am a little confused on how the whole system works. I am also trying to log in to the android Lemmy client however nothing I put in the instances field seems to work

  • Mwalimu@baraza.africa
    6·
    4 years ago

    Instances are servers running Lemmy software that communicate with each other using the ActivityPub protocol (on top of other Internet protocols). Members of one server (instance) can read and comment on posts on another Lemmy server (instance) without leaving their server. I hope that helps.

    • Serge Tarkovski@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 years ago

      Only if federation is enabled and both servers are either in allowlist of each other or just not in blocklist, depending on the settings of those instances.