I’m glad this community is here because I feel very stupid. I’ve seen videos likening the fediverse to email and phone networks. Some of what I’ve seen implies that not only are lemmy instances connected but lemmy instances can also be connected with mastodon, peertube, and others. Is this true? How to I connect to other instances or even other platforms?
Supplementary question: what’s the difference with kbin in this regard? Or is it dead.
Lemmy was closer to reddit than Kbin was. Lemmy always had more users and users were more spread out. Kbin basically had like 70% of the users on one instance, the biggest instance is shutting down, there is now only one instance accepting new signups. So yea, seems dead.
Which instance is still accepting signups?
bin.pol.social (link to fedibd.org stat page)
312 total users
51 monthly active users
bascially dead
RIP
I’m not on lemmy.world but I can see and reply to content there.
You can view and post on almost any other server.
Like how Reddit posts can link to but are different from YouTube videos, Lemmy posts can reference other services, but they don’t directly interact.
I’ve been wondering about this myself at times. Currently I have an account on Mastodon, an account on Pixelfed, an account on Friendica etc.
I follow these accounts across the federated services and I can for example boost my Pixelfed pictures for my Mastodon community to see.
The account is not transferable at all the federated part is you accessing other platforms data from your account. Like email your account is very much tied to the server you setup with.
What we need is something like openid like service to just store profile information like subs and creds and other servers to handle the data like pots and comments.
Something like that would make it even more complicated like a uri of a comment would be bob@Idserver@PostedViaDataserver. You you would just login as bob@Idserver from any data server.
Thank you for the info.
