TGRush

Well then, welcome to the Fediverse I guess :P

Get comfy, as Kbin and Lemmy aren’t the only services part of the Fediverse. There’s also Microblogging services like Mastodon, YouTube-like Video sharing through Peertube and even self-hosted streaming with OwnCast.

There’s statistics on https://fedidb.org, on which there’s also a list of instances/servers on all kinds of topics using all kinds of software.

We ain’t corporate, we’re a community.

This wouldn’t work for the actual content however, as those are posted by individual users from all around the fediverse.

Exporting settings, moderators and alike might be feasible, though.

On that note I highly suggest you read EFF’s “To save the News” articles, where they also go over why targeted ads don’t work. It’s a great read

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-ban-surveillance-advertising

People often compare the fediverse to E-Mail, for a good reason

E-Mail doesn’t need to live all on the same server, or be made by the same provider. I can use ProtonMail, you can use GMail, somebody else can use Outlook, but in the end it doesn’t matter, as we can all talk.

The “Fediverse” - short for “The Federated Universe” - follows a similar concept, but it doesn’t do this over Email; The Fediverse does this using the ActivityPub standard instead.

Activitypub allows all the servers we have our accounts on (in your case kbin.social and in my case forum.fail) to talk to eachother so that content can show up and be interacted with on ALL servers.

This is also why I - someone from a different server/instance - can reply to your comment and up/downvote it if I want to.

This is essentially all you need to know to get started. To see where somebody’s account or a magazine/community is hosted, just hover over their username / check the magazine out. It should have something like @name@server.example. We are currently talking in @lemmyworld@lemmy.world for instance.