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What is an instance? what is a federation? what is a server? can someone please describe in simple terms how this all runs and how we as users navigate it?

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    1 year ago

    When you visit other instances through your home instance there is a delay/difference though as I assume your home instance has to get info from the remote instance before it can show it to you?

    Yes, but it helps if someone else on your home instance has subscribed before, since it would already have that information.

    Or is that just because my account is on a tiny instance and I’m the first one visiting a lot of the communities?

    Also probably this.