Because they don’t get listed by browse.feddit.de [http://browse.feddit.de] you’ll want to browse https://kbin.social/magazines [https://kbin.social/magazines] to browse “magazines”, which is what they call communities e.g. !RedditMigration@kbin.social [/c/RedditMigration@kbin.social] or directly, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration] Why YSK: Federation literally just synched up thanks to the tireless efforts by @ernest@kbin.social [/u/ernest@kbin.social] over the past few days.

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.

  • dragontamer@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    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?

    Yes and no.

    Usenet’s communities / groups (alt.whatever) were unified. While communities on Fediverse are not. This means that !technology@beehaw.org is a different set of posts than !technology@lemmy.world.

    Like Usenet, the federation model means that individual servers can accept, or reject, other server’s traffic. This means that posts aren’t guaranteed to be global. (https://Lemmy.world and https://Beehaw.org are having a defederation spat right now, at least while moderation tools are being developed to fix the problems). This should be familiar to any old USENET user, though the younger #RedditBlackout group is extremely confused about federation.

    • NamstelEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the clarification. I have another question I hope you can answer. Is it possible to be in an instance that has a federation with lemmy.world and beehaw.org? Even though they have been defederated with each other? I hope my question makes sense…