I don’t think many people understand that if they use Lemmy or kbin, they are posting to the fediverse. There are other platforms and will be more to come. Referring to a post on “Lemmy” or “kbin” is like saying you saw a post on your Windows or Mac computer.
We should be referring to it as…
- I saw it on the fediverse.
- Hey fediverse users …
- A thread on the fediverse…
New terms may emerge but referring to the platform seems weird, almost ignorant.
edit: A better example is email. You wouldn’t assume everyone is on Hotmail because that is the email provider you use. You say I’m sendingan eamail, not I’m sending a Hotmail.
https://lemmy.world/comment/20357
This comment was very helpful when I first joined. Long story short, each server is locally storing data for its own users and communities, and also for external communities that at least one user is subscribed to.
Everything is either self or donor funded, and it is my understanding that this model can scale quite a bit without a crazy amount of donations.
But if we get into instances with over a million users, I’m not sure when/if the donor funded model eventually breaks down. That’ll be a good problem to have though, because it means this platform will have been a massive success.
I think Ruuds starting guide post in !lemmyworld@lemmy.world is good too.
Are the bang links working for kbin users too or only lemmy?
https://lemmy.world/post/37906
Bang links work for users on Kbin.
If that is Lemmy creating the URL or kbin seeing the bang format and using it, I don’t know… off to find out :-)
edit: experimenting here !kbin
edit2: I think Lemmy is creating a regular link out of that. My bang above was not auto converted on kbin.