fediverse?

  • JohnDClay
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    1 year ago

    Hmm, I’m seeing kbin.social just like usual subs, is it just built on a different architecture? What’s the difference?

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      1 year ago

      It’s a different architecture and codebase, but it uses activitypub, which is what the whole fediverse is built on, so you should be able to interact with it from any other system that uses the same protocol

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        1 year ago

        @AbstractLinguist @JohnDClay @s804 @Tigbitties @BaldProphet and it looks like lemmy to you because you are on lemmy. I’m on Friendica, which is why this whole post looks like Friendica even though there is contents in it from lemmy, Kbin Friendica, and even Wordpress. It like deciding to join a subreddit on your facebook profile, and it just works.

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          It’s actually super cool to see my comment from a completely different platform! A great example of federation at work.

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      Let’s say each planet is its own “codebase”. Lemmy is a planet, Mastodon is a planet, Pixelfed is a planet, Kbin is a planet.

      shitjustworks, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml (maintained by the creators of Lemmy), beehaw.org - these are all like separate countries on the Lemmy planet, each with its own unique citizens. They use the same Lemmy codebase, but are separate instances controlled by separate people. Anyone, even you, is allowed to use the Lemmy codebase and make and control their own instance. That’s why beehaw can break off and have tighter rules. It’s the fediverse working as intended

      kbin.social, karab.in, fedia.io - these are all instances of the Kbin codebase. Kbin’s a bit different because it can interact with link aggregators (like Lemmy) and microbloggers AKA Twitter posting (like Mastodon). Conversely, Lemmy can only interact with link aggregators. This is because Kbin and Lemmy are 2 completely separate codebases developed and maintained by different people

      And in this example, the fediverse itself would be like an inter-galactic network that connects all of the planets and its countries to one another