I was sort of holding on to hope, that something would change. Unfortunately, nothing did and so, here I am.

I’m really liking kbin so far, so I’m looking forward to spending more time with you all over here. ❤️

e: spelling

  • Helldiver_M@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    This magazine (magazines are like subreddits or communities, they are called magazines on kbin) is hosted on kbin. We know this because the address for the magazine is @RedditMigration@kbin.social. The first @ sign is the name of the community, the second @ sign is the address of the instance that community is hosted on.

    Your account address is @yesdogishere@kbin.social, so I can see you made your account on kbin.social. So you’re probably viewing this from kbin.social as well. Kbin.social is just an instance (a server) that you’re using to access the Fediverse.

    So the community is on kbin.social, you’re on kbin.social, and I also happen to be on kbin.social. But that’s mostly just a coincidence. Say if my account were made on lemmy.world, then my account address would be @Helldiver_M@lemmy.world. Because lemmy.world and kbin.social are federated, a lemmy.world user could reply to my comment.

    As far as your day-to-day browsing, this isn’t super important to know about. But it can be helpful. For instnace, sometimes federated content can take awhile to move from instance to instance. This thread is still pretty new when I’m typing out this comment, so it might not have shown up on other instances yet. That’s why if you look around right now, it’s mostly people with kbin accounts participating. But give it an hour or two, and there might be a few comments from people using different instances in the fediverse.

    I know that was a bit of an info dump, please let me know if there’s anything else I can help clarify. I’m still learning this too and find it pretty interesting.

    • yesdogishere@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      yup we need more explanations like this. What we don’t want is knowledge being privately held and people being told “oh dont worry it all works just accept it”. That’s a recipe for alienation and disaster.

      (im curious:
      what is a “fediverse”
      what is a “magazine”
      exactly where is the info stored in the world
      exactly who has control of which info)

      Is there a diagrammatic wiki where all this is explained? Otherwise it will be too easy for nefarious, evil, greedy, cruel, powermonger types to later on capture the whole of kbin or lemmy or whatever for themselves, and nobody will know what is going on until it is too later. sadly, it is already happening, if you read some of the replies. ugh. cliquey powermonger types…

      the worst is where lemmy etc becomes like crypto - nobody knows what the fuck is going on except the very few, who all use big power words to pretend they are smart and hide functionality from everyone. that then produces fascist dictatorships, more hitler-type personalities will arise, then WW3.