This “You Should Know” post is top of ~June, for good reason. This post announced the kbin.social Federation/compatibility with Lemmy.

A huge amount of test-posts from a wide-variety of instances came in to test the new federation abilities (including from kbin.social, one of the biggest kbin communities).

I think this post shows the hope that over the long-term, we can get federation across the larger fediverse. I don’t know if Mastodon is in the works, but these kinds of posts give hope.

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    1 year ago

    Now that Sync for Reddit is being discontinued I’m dropping Reddit.

    I saw a good write-up about kbin, so I signed up about a day ago and have been liking what I see - although it’s obviously still in its early stages.

    I don’t know much about Lemmy and Federation, but is it a bit like the Newsgroups of old (Usenet), where you joined a Usenet service and any posts on any service propagated across all servers?

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      I don’t know much about Lemmy and Federation, but is it a bit like the Newsgroups of old (Usenet), where you joined a Usenet service and any posts on any service propagated across all servers?

      Yes and no.

      Usenet’s communities / groups (alt.whatever) were unified. While communities on Fediverse are not. This means that [email protected] is a different set of posts than [email protected].

      Like Usenet, the federation model means that individual servers can accept, or reject, other server’s traffic. This means that posts aren’t guaranteed to be global. (https://Lemmy.world and https://Beehaw.org are having a defederation spat right now, at least while moderation tools are being developed to fix the problems). This should be familiar to any old USENET user, though the younger #RedditBlackout group is extremely confused about federation.

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        Thanks for the clarification. I have another question I hope you can answer. Is it possible to be in an instance that have a federation with lemmy.world and beehaw.org? Even though they have been defederated with each other? I hope my question makes sense…