So apologies if this is a stupid question as I’m new to Lemmy. Came from Reddit. I moved to lemmy.world and have noticed that lemmy.ml has been popping up as another featured instance. What differs from lemmy.world vs lemmy.ml? Is .ml more active?
Part of why I ask this is because I downloaded the lemmur client on my phone and it defaults to lemmy.ml. (Yes I’m aware that app is no longer being maintained)
Again apologies for the stupid question.
Kbin, Mastodon, Peertube, anything in the Fediverse adheres to ActivityPub standard, which is the protocol that all of these sites use to communicate.
On a side note, what exactly is Peertube? I’ve been hearing things about it but I have no idea what it is. Is it like a YouTube alternative? Or is it like P2P YouTube?
I am going to be honest, i don’t really know either, I just included it in my example because I know it’s federated
I think it’s a P2P YouTube alternative?
Yes to both. Or, more specifically, it’s a piece of software that lets you set up federated YouTube alternatives (just like Lemmy lets you set up federated Reddit alternatives) and uses P2P to save bandwidth for the host. Basically, if multiple people are watching a video at the same time, they’ll be able to download parts of it from each other instead of everyone downloading it from the main server.