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I still don't even know what the servers on lemmy are, each "subreddit" is a different server?
So lemmy.world is a lemmy server, lemmy is the protocol?
ActivityPub is the protocol. https://activitypub.rocks/
Until you start dealing with defederation. People on Beehaw don't see posts from lemmy.world and lemmy.world gets no updated posts from Beehaw. You don't really want to join a server that's siloed off from other servers involuntary. The users then have to go out of their way to content, especially if they like to use /all