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  • Because they use the same protocol: ActivityPub
    For example, E-Mail gets send over the protocols pop3, smtp, imap. It doesn’t matter if you use Outlook or Gmail for Android or whatever email program. They still send data to each other using these protocols. Therefor both know what to do with the information exchanged.

    There is software that is completely different from Lemmy and Kbin which can still interact via the ActiviyPub protocol. For example Mastodon for Twitter-like mini blogs. Or PeerTube which is a video platform. Pixelfeed is an image sharing platform similar to Instagram and the like. But since they all use AcitvityPub you can interact, comment, vote etc. on these images and videos or mastodon posts here on Kbin or on Lemmy.

    In theory this sounds great. But obviously the different software needs to have the backend and the UI to support these features.

    To make it even more difficult to implement, all these different installations are spread over many different servers (= federation). Which all can have differences in their software again and different speed and rules about how often they synchronize their data, etc.




  • A first step in removing bigotry is perhaps to let go of the stereotypes. There are a lot in your post… None of which you can back up with hard data. It may be hard for you to sympathize with, but always getting confronted with the supposed “fact” that you are the odd one out when you are not male, white, middle-class, does not exactly make for a welcoming stance.

    The same goes for stereotypes about who is interested in what kind of topics (supposedly). It doesn’t help anyone to repeat these stereotypes again and again. But it’s offputting for people who get put into boxes like that.

    Have some faith in people who do not fit your archetype or you. They are more capable than you think. When we would all stop to basically tell them “No don’t try, this is too complicated to you and you are interested in other stuff anyway!” that would help a lot.