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I think it’s better to explain instances as phone booths or conference rooms.
That's an awful comparison.
It's like email.
You can have a
gmail.comaddress, and send and receive emails betweenyahoo.comandhotmail.comaddresses without issues. Nobody really cares which provider you chose, and if you really want to, you can register your own domain and host email yourself.If this doesn't land, then the person you're talking to probably has never used a computer.
Okay thank you
and just like with email if you choose the wrong domain you can't send messages to people on mainstream domains without it being sent to spam.
But they are just different entraces to the same "public square": the fediverse
That’s where I’m not 100% sure. Either each instance maintains a copy of the public square, or there is no public square each piece of content is hosted on one instance and viewable from other instances
The bluesky conference room is muting participants in the conference call