Trying to “recruit” more folks in Kbin but I think I lack enough information to describe Kbin effectively.
“It’s like Reddit but it’s in the fediverse world. It’s a new thing, gaining speed fast and it has less chances to get corrupted because of the fediverse thingie compared to Reddit (lol)!”
In layman’s terms, comparing it to email seems the easiest way to explain.
“It’s like a distributed Reddit with a bunch of instances that are run by different people, and they all talk to one another. Some people have an email address with gmail.com, some have yahoo.com, some have protonmail.com, etc, but they can all email one another. Lemmy instances share each others’ posts in a similar way.”
I just tell them there are pirate subs (comms), that get’s their attention rather quickly.
“it’s like 50 intertwined tiny reddits from before reddit enshitified”
And unlike previous attempts at Reddit clones, it’s not entirely made of far right extremists. It’s full of far left extremists.
It’s groupchat for social media apps.
If you’ve got just one app you use, and the admins go all Elon on the place, you either put up with it or you’re out in the cold.
If you have a hundred different apps - you don’t have that problem, but it’s a fragmented mess you can’t possibly keep track of.
But the fediverse gives you the best of both worlds. It’s hundreds of apps, but they each pull in the feed of all the others - and if the admins of any one app turn out to be evil clowns, the other apps can quietly snip them out of the feed, just like making a new groupchat with everyone but Karen in it.
It’s slowly coalescing into a handful of major cliques defined by the kinds of people they don’t want to talk to.
- Like Reddit, KBin and Lemmy are ‘link aggregators’
- This means, in subject driven Communities (sub-reddits), people post links or images or their thoughts and others comment on them
- Reddit is software that’s installed in one central location (server). This means it is owned and controlled by one single commercial entity.
- Kbin and Lemmy are both software that are installed in multiple locations (servers), owned and controlled by multiple people and can be installed by anyone. This means no one can ever own or control the entirety of Lemmy.
- Reddit, KBin and Lemmy can be accessed by users via websites or apps.
- Reddit is centralised. If it disappeared tomorrow, it would be completely gone.
- KBin and Lemmy are federated. If one instance (server) disappeared tomorrow, all the others would be unaffected and carry on as normal.
- All instances of KBin and Lemmy can talk to all other instances of KBin and Lemmy, as long as they are federated.
- Rule breaking and/or toxic instances/servers can be defederated by other servers/instances.
- Reddit, KBin and Lemmy are all free to use. However, with Reddit you must contend with invasive privacy and advertising. The way to support KBin and Lemmy is to donate to the development team and the server/instance your account is on.
