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I am new to the Fediverse. I vaguely understand how Lemmy instances broadcast content to each other, but I was surprised to find Lemmy communities on kbin. How does that work? (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by GoodKingElliot@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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And it also seems that mastodon can also be "syndicated" to these other communities, and vice versa? Is that true?

Are there limitations to any of this?

Apologies if this is not the perfect place to ask this question. I'm a lost old man. :-)

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[–] GoodKingElliot@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thank you. That makes a lot of sense. I didn't know they spoke the same underlying protocol.
For fun and experimentation, I'm answering you from my Kbin account. I feel like a kid in a candy store playing with this new technology. Maybe Reddit's suicide-by-greed is not entirely a bad thing.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I agree. I'm sad at the loss of my 12 year account over there and all the information it had built up. I'm sad to lose my niche hobby communities (for now). Even with that, I'm really hopeful that federated social media will eventually take off. Now we just need to make sure that major corporate interests don't dig their gross claws into it (Meta is apparently making plans to do so).

[–] mycus@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Wanna try something crazy? Go to a mastodon instance like this one and put @asklemmy@lemmy.ml on the searchbar there.

or do the inverse, look for someone local to mastodon, like @stux@mstdn.social and search in our searchbar. Result.

I think this works even for unfederated things, then by doing that you end up federating them to the whole server.