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)!”
- 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.
I just start with “It’s basically just a community owned Reddit” and leave it at that.
I think that gets the important point across. Getting into details about federation and picking servers just makes it sound complicated, when it really isn’t.
Then if someone’s interested I just recommend them a larger server and let them go from there.
I think people way over complicate things from the start and turn people off before they even try it.
Yeah keep it simple is IMO a good thing.
Like not saying it’s like email servers or something, I got that and I know Reddit and how email servers works and it just muddied the waters for me.
What do you think about this? It’s like Reddit but everyone can make theirs if they want to.
It’s like multiple reddit sites, but they all work the same and the content and users are synced between them. So you can pick any one of them, follow topics and contact users from all of them, and if one site goes haywire we just ignore or block it and move on.
The way that I explain it is quite similar to yours. It works, but you need to emphasise
- that unlike in Reddit, there’s no central group of admins controlling the whole thing; and
- that each instance has its own communities, and those are equivalent to subreddits.
otherwise users start associating instances with subreddits.
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.
I just told my friends that the federation is like the states in a country. They exist independently, abide by similar, but specific rules and allow you to travel between each other without friction.
