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How does Lemmy Work?

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    So like, how does Lemmy work?

    When I click on a post, let's say Lemmy.World, that server sends me the page over the Internet. I get that part. But how does it do comments? Does it tell my phone to go ask lemm.ee and blahaj servers, etc, and fetch the comments?

    And why does a post on lemmy.world have have a blahaj URL when I look at it? Is my server making a copy?

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      So like, how does Lemmy work?

      When I click on a post, let's say Lemmy.World, that server sends me the page over the Internet. I get that part. But how does it do comments? Does it tell my phone to go ask lemm.ee and blahaj servers, etc, and fetch the comments?

      And why does a post on lemmy.world have have a blahaj URL when I look at it? Is my server making a copy?

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      Your server is retrieving another servers content. Your server is posting your content to other servers.

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        So like, how does Lemmy work?

        When I click on a post, let's say Lemmy.World, that server sends me the page over the Internet. I get that part. But how does it do comments? Does it tell my phone to go ask lemm.ee and blahaj servers, etc, and fetch the comments?

        And why does a post on lemmy.world have have a blahaj URL when I look at it? Is my server making a copy?

        snotflickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneS This user is from outside of this forum
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        And why does a post on lemmy.world have have a blahaj URL when I look at it? Is my server making a copy?

        Yes, it is, and you're looking at a local version of it. For Blahaj especially this matter as blahaj doesn't federate downvotes, so you never see downvotes on the blahaj version of a post.

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          So like, how does Lemmy work?

          When I click on a post, let's say Lemmy.World, that server sends me the page over the Internet. I get that part. But how does it do comments? Does it tell my phone to go ask lemm.ee and blahaj servers, etc, and fetch the comments?

          And why does a post on lemmy.world have have a blahaj URL when I look at it? Is my server making a copy?

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