Yeah absolutely. An instance is kind of your home group. It’s not a “subreddit,” more just a sorting method for links. The “subreddits” are the boards inside the instances, and the instances work to determine their addresses.

On Reddit you might have /r/nfl, /r/actualnfl, /r/realnfl, for example, while here you would have nfl@lemmy.world, nfl@other.instance, nfl@another.instance.

(People better at explaining or who are further along the process of understanding please feel free to correct me and chime in!)

I’m still a little confused but it’s sinking in. The difference between an instance and a “sub”, as well as how to join or interact with other “subs” without having to join each individual instance, was the part that was toughest to adapt to. I love it, though. Lemmy is giving me the feeling Reddit did when I first joined it a long, long time ago on my first ever account. It feels organic.