• ShustOne@lemmy.oneEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    This would have helped me years ago when I was kind of confused on Mastodon. Very nice intro to new users.

  • .oOspaceshiptripOo. @lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Where does kbin fit with lemmy? Is it a competitor? I see a lot of posts pointing to lemmy communities. Can people create new kbin communities like lemmy?

    Kbin reminds me of slashdot, maybe it’s the UI

    • yool_ooloo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for asking this!

      I set up accounts on both in the hysteria of leaving reddit.

      I think I get how the various lemmys work/interact, I just don’t know how Kbin fits into the picture.

      I am just using my laptop, not on mobile devices yet.

      Third day here, so still learning and giving lots of time and patience for the dust to settle

  • sorrus@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I find that comparing it to email makes it click the fastest. Everyone knows that you can email someone no matter which email provider they use.

  • python@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Thank you, this is very well made and covers all the basic questions!

    I’d also like to add that you can get very cool usernames by joining smaller instances, since usernames don’t have to be unique between instances ;)

    • lutillian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Because currently lemmy doesn’t substitute links to rewrite them from your own community.

      Eg. !cats@sh.itjust.works would refer to https://lemmy.one/c/cats@sh.itjust.works From your instance. If people don’t link correctly though it’ll direct to https://sh.itjust.works/c/cats which you wouldn’t be able to join

      Essentially as long as your instance isn’t actively defederated from a given instance, you can typically join your instances “mirror” of that community.

      Say you wanted to join cats on sh.itjust.works… you can open your instances search and paste !cats@sh.itjust.works into your search

    • fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Two likely possibilities with further detail about each below:

      1. The link you clicked took you to the community on the host instance rather than the copy on your local instance, or

      2. The community is on an instance that’s defederated with your home instance.

      When you view and interact with communities and content hosted on another server, you’re technically interacting with a copy of that community/content that’s hosted on your home server and kept in sync with the main copy. So if I want to subscribe to /c/technology hosted on lemmy.world even though my home instance is sh.itjust.works, I need to visit the copy on shitjustworks at sh.itjust.works/c/technology@lemmy.world

      If I went to lemmy.world/c/technology, I couldn’t interact because I don’t have an account on the lemmy.world site.

      As I said above, communities and content are copied between Lemmy instances and kept in sync across the copies. But sometimes an instance will ‘defederate’ with another, ie cutting the direct connection between them that lets them copy and sync content. In that case, there’s no local copy for me to subscribe to or interact with.

      The incorrect link is far more likely to be the issue than defederation, so whenever you run into that issue check the link and make sure it’s the copy on your instance.

    • angrynomad@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      not actually mine , credit is on the bottom left, but I cant even re-load the image, let alone lemmy.world, it’s all so slow. I was actually trying to find the original to link to someone else and couldnt load lemmy.world

  • NaN@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Great graphic. The only thing that is unmentioned and potentially confusing is that the same community names can exist on multiple instances, just like email addresses can do.

    I don’t know how to easily boil that down to a simple graphic.

  • manolo_r6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Newb to the fediverse here. This graphic is really helpful. One, probably dumb, question: where does something like kbin.social fall into this? Is it part of the fediverse or a different *verse?

    • StarManta@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      kbin is also a part of the fediverse. It’s similar enough to Lemmy that (as far as I can tell) they seem to be virtually interchangeable.

      • Skullvalanche@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Kbin is sorta like an alternate Lemmy client.

        A bad comparison would be like Hotmail vs gmail. Both are email, but slightly different interfaces.