Forgive me if this is truly a stupid question but I cannot find the answer and I have been afraid to ask.
Am attaching a screen shot to assist my babbling below.
When surfing thru the various communities (and please feel free to correct me if I use a wrong term here) I will see many that have the same name but only difference is that at the end of that name, there is an ‘@xyz.ca’ or similar.
I assumed these were just the same communities only started on different servers?
However I have seen several - like the one where my arrow points to that doesn’t have an ‘@‘ location at the end of it. Can someone explain to me the difference here? Thanks
I believe that indicates that particular community is “local” to the instance of Lemmy you’re signed into. Since it is local they don’t need to add the rest of the instance address for the community.
(So if you were logged into lemmy.world when you took the screenshot that would mean that is !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world)
Ah okay thanks. I had thought this might be what it was but did not want to assume as much.
That makes sense then. Thanks everyone for the answers!