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?
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?
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?
Or is that just because my account is on a tiny instance and I’m the first one visiting a lot of the communities?
Yes, but it helps if someone else on your home instance has subscribed before, since it would already have that information.
Also probably this.