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    1 year ago

    Yeah, so the terminology can get weird, and the Reddit comparison is tricky Because you have to imagine multiple Reddits (the platform, not subreddits) for it to really work.

    Servers and Instances are used pretty interchangeably - each one is privately operated, and you pick the one you want to sign up on - startrek.website is one of these instances.

    Each instance can host its own “Communities” - there are like subreddits. We’re hosting three right now, /c/startrek, /c/daystrominstitute, and /c/risa.

    The neat-but-complicated part is that each instance can communicate with other instances, so if you want to subscribe to a community on a server other than the one you signed up for, you can (within reasons, as there are mechanisms for instances to isolate themselves or block other instances from communication if they choose to do so).

    So yeah, you can look at startrek.website as a mini-reddit with three Trek-related subreddits…but you can also use it as a springboard to subscribe to other subreddits on other mini-reddits.