TGRush

Well then, welcome to the Fediverse I guess :P

Get comfy, as Kbin and Lemmy aren’t the only services part of the Fediverse. There’s also Microblogging services like Mastodon, YouTube-like Video sharing through Peertube and even self-hosted streaming with OwnCast.

There’s statistics on https://fedidb.org, on which there’s also a list of instances/servers on all kinds of topics using all kinds of software.

We ain’t corporate, we’re a community.

This wouldn’t work for the actual content however, as those are posted by individual users from all around the fediverse.

Exporting settings, moderators and alike might be feasible, though.

On that note I highly suggest you read EFF’s “To save the News” articles, where they also go over why targeted ads don’t work. It’s a great read

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-ban-surveillance-advertising

Because these instances are often run as hobby projects and out of passion, not to be sustainable.

The Fediverse isnt corporate, we’re a community and nothing will change that. We don’t want to make money, we want to bring back what social media was supposed to be.

Additionally, it has become part of the culture of the Fediverse to regularly remind your peers to donate to your instance, as they’re who are running this all for our benefit.

People often compare the fediverse to E-Mail, for a good reason

E-Mail doesn’t need to live all on the same server, or be made by the same provider. I can use ProtonMail, you can use GMail, somebody else can use Outlook, but in the end it doesn’t matter, as we can all talk.

The “Fediverse” - short for “The Federated Universe” - follows a similar concept, but it doesn’t do this over Email; The Fediverse does this using the ActivityPub standard instead.

Activitypub allows all the servers we have our accounts on (in your case kbin.social and in my case forum.fail) to talk to eachother so that content can show up and be interacted with on ALL servers.

This is also why I - someone from a different server/instance - can reply to your comment and up/downvote it if I want to.

This is essentially all you need to know to get started. To see where somebody’s account or a magazine/community is hosted, just hover over their username / check the magazine out. It should have something like @name@server.example. We are currently talking in @lemmyworld@lemmy.world for instance.

These magazines are hosted on different servers, even though they serve the same purpose, yes.

I bet that people will naturally go to the magazines/communities that are moderated better or more active once everything settles down.

They linked to fediverse.observer for the entirety of Lemmy tho 🤔

Everything on Kbin and Lemmy is “federated”

This is basically just a fancy word to say “no matter what server you’re on, we can all talk to each other”.

It’s kind of like E-Mail where no matter if you use GMail or Outlook, you can talk to your friends and colleagues.

When a server defederates from another server, It’s like a two-way block.

People on (in this case) beehaw won’t see threads, magazines and replies from Lemmy.world and sh.it just.works and people from Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works won’t see threads, magazines and replies from beehaw.org

Server/Instance admins usually do this when there are instances which spread unwished for content.

This is also why on my profile, there’s a link (forum.fail). It’s part of my identifier here on the Fediverse (@TGRush@forum.fail).

check https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse instead, we have MUCH more users than you think.

Edit: also note that beehaw isn’t completely defederated. They only defederated from sh.itjust.works and Lemmy.world.