• Yoru@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    can’t it be simply !bocchitherock or !btr ? why is there @sopuli.xyz at the end

    • terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li
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      1 year ago

      The @sopuli.xyz indicates the community was made on that instance. Basically your instance is talking with that instance to keep things in sync. This is what allows me on lemmy.nrd.li to talk to you on lemmy.ml via sopuli.xyz.

    • Aeroatrix@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      its because this community is from another instance of lemmy called sopuli.xyz which is the name of the site’s link, when you see communities from other instances it has the @ then site link on it

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        1 year ago

        so does this mean communities with no @ symbol next to them are local?

        • terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li
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          1 year ago

          Yeah (assuming the current version of the lemmy UI), if the sidebar says !community@server it is remote, if it only says !community then it is local. For local communities there is basically an implicit @yourserver after the community name.