I found myself logged out and Lemmy. I tried to connect to my account and it didn’t work so instead I have decided to send myself a lost password email but nothing came through. I then realized I was on lemmy.nl and not on lemmy.world
What is the difference ?! Thanks
Yeah it’s federation.
A different domain (ex. .TV, .us., .gov, etc.) doesn’t always mean it’s the same site. I couldn’t find any notable cases (or court cases) but an example could be mylocalbusiness.de versuses mylocalbusiness.pt
In that situation I can create a website for my local business in Germany and not have to worry about an identically named business in Portugal potentially.
It is important to keep this in mind though because spoofing one website for malicious purposes is a real hazard.