This “You Should Know” post is top of ~June, for good reason. This post announced the kbin.social Federation/compatibility with Lemmy.
A huge amount of test-posts from a wide-variety of instances came in to test the new federation abilities (including from kbin.social, one of the biggest kbin communities).
I think this post shows the hope that over the long-term, we can get federation across the larger fediverse. I don’t know if Mastodon is in the works, but these kinds of posts give hope.
Now that Sync for Reddit is being discontinued I’m dropping Reddit.
I saw a good write-up about kbin, so I signed up about a day ago and have been liking what I see - although it’s obviously still in its early stages.
I don’t know much about Lemmy and Federation, but is it a bit like the Newsgroups of old (Usenet), where you joined a Usenet service and any posts on any service propagated across all servers?
Hello there to anybody on KBin reading this, feel free to throw memes at me
Can someone please ELI5 federation to me? I keep seeing threads and comments about this but I don’t understand the concept. Does federation essentially just mean connecting all different instances and platforms across the fediverse which is how I can use kbin and see all the content here even if it’s from Lemmy?
edit: thanks everyone for the answers :)
I thought kbin was already federated and compatible with lemmy?
It was, and then it wasn’t as the admin had to enable Cloudflare DDOS protection during the Reddit surge. This broke federation, but it’s back off now and Kbin’s back in the fold.
I‘ve been commenting and upvoting stuff on lemmy all day long from kbin, no idea how that would be possible if they weren‘t federated.
Federation was turned back on well before this was posted. Like probably a day or two or three ago.
Good news: You are already federating with the greater fediverse! Mastodon checking in. :)
