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Lemmy is a broad federation of different islands, or sites. You can visit these sites from other sites and comment on their communities, or stay on your own island.
Hexbear is federated with some sites, like Lemmygrad, and defederated from others, like Blahaj.
Lemmygrad is its own equivalent to Hexbear, and people on Lemmygrad can and do participate in Hexbear discussions, and vice-versa.
People just like me π
We love our Grad comrades 
I have a (mostly dormant) hexbear account!
I use this one because of the age, read it and weep nerds
Now they have 4-year-olds as commies?
I like to consider myself hexbear adjacent. love the emojis and solidarity with all y'all!
I'm helping!
It might be helpful to think about federation sort of like the email protocol. Users with different email providers can still send emails to each other
Hexbear is a Lemmy instance, people can create accounts submit links and post comments. Users with accounts from other Lemmy instances can also submit links and post comments, as long as the site has allowed users from that instance
Additionally, like the email analogy, Lemmy instances can also display content from other instances as long as the site has allowed content from that instance
We have six bears here. They donβt even have one.
Hexbear is one of many lemmy instances, and so is lemmy.blahaj. Each instance has its own admins and rules. Content can be shared between individual instances.
Edit: You have an account on hexbear, so you can log in to hexbear, not other instances.
You have an account on hexbear, so you can log in to hexbear, not other instances.
But you can comment on other federated instances through your Hexbear account. So instead of logging into lemmygrad with your Hexbear account, you interact with lemmygrad content on Hexbear.
dang i was hoping i could post with my hexbear account. i appreciate the explanation comrade
You can. However, you need to access the community in question through hexbear, not on the instance of that community.
This only works if that other instance hasn't blocked hexbear though.
Hexbear is all liberals all the time. Other instances have some liberals, but also various forms of socialist.
https://sh.itjust.works/ is all tankies though
Hmmmm I'm not sure I believe you :thinking:
Have you seen their Ukraine takes? They love rolling in the tanks
We don't have the fun emojis
Hexbear is a Lemmy. Blahaj is a different Lemmy. Lemmygrad is a third Lemmy. There's also a Lemmy that's called "Lemmy", so that can be confusing.
The Lemmys all talk to each other and share posts, which helps them all have more content. But it also means that sometimes wildly different communities come into contact with one another, which can cause problems. It's easy to get used to one Lemmy's rules but then you go to another where the rules are different and break them without realizing it.
I'm a Hexbear native, but I made an account on lemm.ee because I wanted to see a more diverse feed (Hexbear's site culture causes a lot of friction with other Lemmys, so its blocked by many of them). Still I mostly browse Hexbear's communities cuz this is where the best content is, generally speaking.