Oh, i see. Thanks for the reply; i guess I have a lot to learn still.

I noticed when I go to the ‘popular’ lemmy instances such as lemmy.world and lemmy.ml and click on communities | All that I see a lot of communities. On my own local server I only see the communities that I’ve subscribed to. Is that what you see as well?

I am running mine on an old Optiplex that i bought to run pihole and plex. It seems to be working fairly well although I am still trying to understand how all of this works.