Hubzilla has a notion of channels that can be individual users or forum-based communities. You can share a post with public, some other fine-tuned lists, or post them on forums.

Lemmy communities correctly get recognised as forum channels. Why is it then that I still need to create a public post and tag the community channel to create a post rather than just posting and sharing with the forum channel??

TL;DR: Hubzilla forum channels = lemmy communities. Why still make public post and tag community then?

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Even when you stay inside Lemmy and create a post inside a Lemmy community that post is first created on your server. And then announced to the target community's server.

Like, if you had an account on lemmy.ml and wanted to create a post in fediverse@lemmy.world. You would still create that post on lemmy.ml and only after a short delay would it appear on lemmy.world.

Hubzilla does something similar. The post has to first exist on their own server before it is copied over to the community's server.

It's the same for Mastodon posts. Or Wordpress posts or a myriad of other fediverse systems. The thingy is first created locally and then copied to other services that are listening by whatever means.