curse4444Jul 13, 2023

How does this federated forum / site work?

I migrated from reddit like a lot of folks. I'm using kbin.social, but it seems I can also see posts from people at places like lemmy.world. How many different instances are there? How does the federated model work? So far I like what I see, but I'm also just trying to understand how things are integrated here.

https://kbin.social/m/nostupidquestion[email protected]/t/191143

How does this federated forum / site work? - nostupidquestions - kbin.social

I migrated from reddit like a lot of folks. I'm using kbin.social, but it seems I can also see posts from people at places like lemmy.world. How many different instances are there? How does the federated model work? So far I like what I see, but I'm also just trying to understand how things are integrated here.

Show threadsauerkraus

Instances are like subreddits where the mods are top level admins, and there is no central admin above them. Anyone who wants to create an instance can host their own server. The cost of hosting is paid by the admins of an instance or by donations. Sponsors and ads are not currently feasible.

Unmoderated instances allow any new instance’s content to be displayed for their users.

Jul 13, 2023 at 8:12pmWeb
Show thread1chemistdownJul 13, 2023

Instances are like Reddit, Twitter, instagram, etc. Each instance has certain rules that may vary from the parent they forked from (see beehaw vs Lemmy.ml). Those instances will then have a structure like subreddits, posts, comments, etc.

Lemmy is similar to Reddit. Communities (c/*) are subreddits

Mastodon is similar to twitter. Microblogs are tweets.

Kbin combines Lemmy and Mastodon.