/r/50501 is opening a Lemmy instance as a backup
/r/50501 is opening a Lemmy instance as a backup
Nice to see another instance join Lemmy and the fediverse. Best of luck.
The communities are: !mirror@50501.chat
!general@50501.chatAs well as many state specific ones.
Boost stopped working a couple days ago so I'm now fully on Lemmy. Can somebody help me understand how this works?
So the subreddit made a .chat instance (which my boost for Lemmy app does not open in app), and these are the two mirrors for that one instance? But I feel my assumption is off because they have different posts.
what is it that you want explained?
- Lemmy runs on a bunch of separate servers (instances) that share information with each other. 50501.chat is such an instance.
- Any community - basically a subreddit - is hosted on one such instance
- Your server, lemmy.zip, can pull information from that instance when you go to their community. On your end, unless their instance is banned by your instance, all this means is that their community has a longer name. Instead of /r/50501 or /c/50501 or whatever, it's !mirror@50501.chat so that your instance can tell where to take you when you want to go there.
Can't you open this link in the app? !general@50501.chat
If not there is this one: https://lemmy.zip/c/general@50501.chat
So "general" is the general discussion space from the Lemmy server.
!Mirror@50501.chat mirrors chats from the subreddit
Surprising. I didn't expect them to host a instance over just creating a community on some instance.
Tbf it has a lot of communities, mostly for each state
Oh? Didn't notice that. I guess they could've still gone with creating them on some instance, but of course this is better.
What is that subreddit?
It's about a protest, impeaching the US president i think? (50 states 50 protests 1 movement)
A "backup"?
I think having the moderators of a popular subreddit officially endorse Lemmy will lead to more Lemmy growth than if they just closed the subreddit.
