Kbin is the first Reddit alternative I looked at and i liked the UI so I stuck with it. I kind of assumed everything would be kbin. I thought I understood things. I thought it was kbin and lemmy separate but they federated and so I’d be able to access lemmy stuff from kbin. Which I guess is true. But now I’m confused. I look at all, and I see a post in m/main@sh.itjust.works and the post is from lemmy.world and it’s devs. I’m not subbed to m/main, so did Ernest curate /all and add it? Are people cross posting from lemmy into sh.itjust.works? I feel like I need a drawing or red string diagram.

  • Otome-chan@kbin.social
    19·
    1 year ago

    so the main kbin homepage is “all” meaning, everything across the fediverse. that means we see content from lemmy.ml, sh.itjust.works, beehaw.org, lemmy.world, etc.

    now, everyone can participate in each other’s communities. for instance this community is nostupidquestions@lemmy.world. you and I are kbin.social users. our comments right now are being posted to lemmy.world. lemmy users can see such and respond to it.

    m/main@sh.itjust.works is a community on sh.itjust.works. similar to how reddit.com/r/gaming is a community on reddit. however, we on kbin.social can also see and interact with that community. when we do so, people can see our username as coming from kbin.social, since that’s what we’re using.

    tl;dr:

    The site we are on is kbin.social. this is a website running the “kbin” software.

    kbin can interact with other “fediverse” websites, such as lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works.

    as a result, we see all their contents and users, and vice versa (noted with the @ url afterwards). the other users are not visiting kbin.social in their browser. If the account says lemmy.world they are going to the lemmy.world website, which can see kbin.social content just how we can see their content.

    • leftzero@lemmy.ml
      6·
      1 year ago

      I’m replying to this from Jerboa (the Android Lemmy app), while logged in as my lemmy.ml account.

      Federation; it’s great (when it works). 😁

      Only issue is I can’t set up my kbin.social account on Jerboa, but eh, it’s still in development, so I’ll probably be able to at some point down the line (or someone’ll make a more general Fediverse app). 🤷‍♂️