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yelly,
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I keep hoping that new sites will be better about this. And while I understand the reasons why this happens it still saddens me that it still does.

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I made an account on Kbin, and I'm looking at posts from Lemmy and BeeHaw and Kbin and sometimes I forget to even check what the source is.

So am I accessing Lemmy through Kbin? Am I seeing the entire Fediverse through Kbin's interface? Am I reading Kbin, which gets its content from across the Fediverse?

In short, I'm wondering what the local terminology is for what I signed up for and what I'm seeing when I pull up Kbin.

yelly,
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My understanding of how this works:

  • Your logged into and interacting with your local instance. (kbin.social, it appears.)
  • Your local instance will store a local copy of remote servers' content for you to see.
  • When you interact with your local servers copy of content, you are telling your local server things like "I upvote this." "I'm commenting on that."
  • Your local server will then tell the remote server that "owns" the content that you "upvoted this" or "commented on that".
  • Other remote servers will then get these updates from the remote "owner" server.

So, the content is spread out over many servers and each owns their own local stuff but share it with remote servers. Then they all share all the various user interactions with each other so each individual person only really needs 1 account on 1 server to get access to the entire* fediverse.

*-There's defederation that comes into play which blocks some of that communication but we don't need to get into that here.

yelly,
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Little Kitty, Big City - Surprisingly fun demo. Feels a lot like Stray in good ways. Very much looking forward to the full release.

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