I checked this site out since Reddit is getting worse and the original 196 subreddit banned me without reason. What exactly is this website?

  • jorymo@lemmy.worldOP
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    17 hours ago

    Ah, okay! I think the biggest hurdle for me is what seems to be multiple domains? I’ve tried reading about the “fediverse,” but I can’t really wrap my head around it

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      16 hours ago

      Most people use the email analogy; the sub-lemmys are on different servers owned and moderated by different people, they just happen to use the same communication protocol. Similar to how you can email a hotmail, yahoo, or icloud account from a gmail account. And because they’re different servers people might have the same name, just differentiated by the server name. So you might see a MarySmith@gmail.com and a MarySmith@hotmail.com who aren’t the same person, they just happen to share a name.

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      It’s just like email (or Usenet on the chance you’re old) - you have an account on lemmy.world, you can only log in on lemmy.world, but you can read and reply to users and posts on fedia.io, mander.xyz, feddit.org, etc., et al

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      Ah, the domains / instances are simple:

      Imagine that they’re houses. Your home is lemmy.world, my home is mander.xyz. We’re both visiting lemmy.blahaj.zone, and chatting together.

      And just like your house can have a kitchen that’s completely separated from my house’s kitchen, two instances can have two separated versions of the same community.

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      16 hours ago

      Don’t think too hard about it. Join the ones that seem active, ignore the ones that seem dead. That’s really all there is to it.

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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      12 hours ago

      With instances (domains) the content stays there until a user from another instance looks in on it, at that point the content is federated over on to their instance and it starts to spread…

      At least that’s how I understand it, but I don’t really know all the technicalities to be honest

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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      17 hours ago

      Anyone can run a copy (instance) of the software on a server and effectively create their own platform. These would be too small so the software allows sharing content with others (federating) if both consent.

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      15 hours ago

      It’s like lots of reddits, each can have the same subs. You can even spin up your own clone!