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This is a case where the email analogy is perfect. In your question you create an address "email@gmail.com" and someone else creates an address "email@yahoo.com." Both accounts will be able to send email to each other and anyone else can send or receive email to/from both addresses. But email sent to "email@gmail.com" will not show up at "email@yahoo.com" nor vice versa.
It makes me think of Discord servers. There are lots of channels that share the same name but they are all on different servers. You can visit any and all of them if you like but they are not connected.
Where this analogy fails is you cannot see or send messages without joining the server. And on Lemmy you can.