fediverse?
Fediverse is based on a distributed protocoll, where everyone can join. It gives alternatives to most known “social media” service silos like:
- pixelfed : instagram
- mastodon : twitter
- Lemmy : reddit …
Go ahead and use a search engine ;)
I’m just wrapping my head around it myself.
From what I got Kbin is an instance of Lemmy and Lemmy part of the Fediverse. The Fediverce is made up of a bunch of different types of social platforms.
eg:
Microblogging: Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey
Blogging: Write.as, Read.as
Video hosting: Peertube
Audio hosting: Funkwhale
Image hosting: Pixelfed
Link aggregator: Lemmy
Instances are those platforms being hosted by a user. It’s like their own personal reddit. They get to make their own rules and stuff. The cool thing is all the instances can talk to each other. And you can choose to communicate the other instances.
There’s more to it but I don’t really understand everything.
Watch this: https://savjee.be/videos/simply-explained/mastodon-and-fediverse-explained/
Hmm, I’m seeing kbin.social just like usual subs, is it just built on a different architecture? What’s the difference?
It’s a different architecture and codebase, but it uses activitypub, which is what the whole fediverse is built on, so you should be able to interact with it from any other system that uses the same protocol
Let’s say each planet is its own “codebase”. Lemmy is a planet, Mastodon is a planet, Pixelfed is a planet, Kbin is a planet.
shitjustworks, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml (maintained by the creators of Lemmy), beehaw.org - these are all like separate countries on the Lemmy planet, each with its own unique citizens. They use the same Lemmy codebase, but are separate instances controlled by separate people. Anyone, even you, is allowed to use the Lemmy codebase and make and control their own instance. That’s why beehaw can break off and have tighter rules. It’s the fediverse working as intended
kbin.social, karab.in, fedia.io - these are all instances of the Kbin codebase. Kbin’s a bit different because it can interact with link aggregators (like Lemmy) and microbloggers AKA Twitter posting (like Mastodon). Conversely, Lemmy can only interact with link aggregators. This is because Kbin and Lemmy are 2 completely separate codebases developed and maintained by different people
And in this example, the fediverse itself would be like an inter-galactic network that connects all of the planets and its countries to one another
The Fediverse is a collection of websites running different kind of social media software that are able to communicate with each other similar to email via a protocol called ActivityPub (and a few others).
I don’t necessarily have the best understanding either, but I’ll give it a shot.
The fediverse is a federated universe, which means lots of servers can talk to each other (like a federation of people) instead of all being centralized in one company and their servers. It’s like how email is a common way to talk to each other, even though there are different groups with different versions.
Lemmy is the Reddit like portion of the fediverse. There are other parts, such as Mastodon, which is like Twitter. These can talk to each other a bit too, but right now they mostly talk within themselves.
Servers like vbin, sh.itjust.works, Lemmy world, Lemmy.ml, and many others are computers that store the information on Lemmy. They keep track of how many upvotes, text, links, and sometimes content hosting. But because there are a lot of them, and anyone can easily make their own, it’s harder for a company like Reddit to just ruin it all for profit.
@JohnDClay @s804 as with so many things, Wikipedia is a great place to start. It can be over whelming to wrap your head around, until you realize oh #ItWorksLikeEmail
@s804 it’s a cool protocol that many platforms use in order to allow any user on them to communicate with each other. Kbin is one of them. Friendica is another one. Hello from Friendica!
Disregard what I said, I didn’t really see which magazine I was in. Basically it is a term describing multiple social media platforms, with various use cases, that can talk with each other using ActivityPub - a web protocol (kind of a language in layman terms) that allows them to do it.
- Here’s an image showing you how that would look like (And here’s the source of it. It has a really simple, but comprehensive explanation).
- A great website if you want to learn more and discover more platforms in this regard is this one.
As I said in the strikethrough text above, I am on such a platform myself. Hello from Friendica! 😁