Hello all! I’m one of the original reddit users, and before that a long time Digg user. I want to enjoy and participate in the fediverse.

Can someone please explain federation, and to what degree the content from other platforms / instances will appear for a user who only visits kbin.social? I understand that federation is currently broken. What happens when it gets fixed?

I tried searching, but no luck. If there’s a fan or link, all the better :D

  • amanneedsamaid
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    1 year ago

    You’re missing the fact that each community is only tied to its instance, i.e. there can be a different community of the same name in every instance.

    The idea of federation is not difficult or over the average users head, it is literally the exact same idea used in email. Gmail and Yahoo are two different “instances” that can talk to one another. There can be a nick@gmail.com and a nick@yahoo.com because those accounts are only tied to their respective “instance”. This same logic applies to both users and communities on Lemmy.

    Also I completely disagree that Kbin is the defacto reddit replacement, Lemmy seems much more popular in my experience. The two federate, so it doesn’t really matter which you use, but Kbin can also pull mastodon microblogs, which I find useless for how I use Lemmy.