17 year old Tech enthusiast and Cat lover from Germany.

You can also find me on Mastodon at @Rush

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  • 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.




  • 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).