• AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      It’s not a website in the same way as a family isn’t a person and a band isn’t a musician. There are websites that are part of it, but no single website is The Fediverse.

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        1 day ago

        Definition:

        A website, or web site, is any web page whose content is identified by a common domain name and is published on at least one web server. Websites are typically dedicated to a particular topic or purpose, such as news, education, commerce, entertainment, or social media.

        Not all the Fediverse is Lemmy, but all Lemmies are websites.

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          2 hours ago

          You’re injecting your own definition of Lemmy. The normal definitions would be:

          • The software running on the websites and webservers. It’s the same software running on all the websites, so it’s still only one Lemmy no matter how many websites it powers.
          • The subset of the Fediverse that’s accessible via Lemmy software. There’s only one of that (although defederation makes it a little complicated as you can’t access all of Lemmy from any one website).