Lemmy is a broad federation of different islands, or sites. You can visit these sites from other sites and comment on their communities, or stay on your own island.

Hexbear is federated with some sites, like Lemmygrad, and defederated from others, like Blahaj.

Lemmygrad is its own equivalent to Hexbear, and people on Lemmygrad can and do participate in Hexbear discussions, and vice-versa.

It might be helpful to think about federation sort of like the email protocol. Users with different email providers can still send emails to each other

Hexbear is a Lemmy instance, people can create accounts submit links and post comments. Users with accounts from other Lemmy instances can also submit links and post comments, as long as the site has allowed users from that instance

Additionally, like the email analogy, Lemmy instances can also display content from other instances as long as the site has allowed content from that instance

We have six bears here. They don’t even have one.

Hexbear is one of many lemmy instances, and so is lemmy.blahaj. Each instance has its own admins and rules. Content can be shared between individual instances.

Edit: You have an account on hexbear, so you can log in to hexbear, not other instances.

Hexbear is all liberals all the time. Other instances have some liberals, but also various forms of socialist.

We don’t have the fun emojis

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