Okay thanks that made a lot of sense in that link.

How does this affect moderation of comments? If my comment propagates to all federated instances can it be deleted by anybody?

Also how does one start a community? Do you have to have your own instance in order to launch your own community?

Is there some kind of tutorial or explanation for beginners who only came here because of sync and don’t understand anything that’s going on.

On one side this experience is really simple and easy, sync makes it very much like Reddit. But I see some people have @signs in their names showing their on different instances… Does that mean my comments aren’t seen by all people and what the heck is an instance and what an I doing?

I’m paying $1.99/month and it’s ad free.