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YSK that kbin.social is now federating, adding hundreds of communities and ~26k more users content - Lemmy.world (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by dragontamer@lemmy.world to c/bestoflemmy@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Jaluvshuskies@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Can someone please ELI5 federation to me? I keep seeing threads and comments about this but I don't understand the concept. Does federation essentially just mean connecting all different instances and platforms across the fediverse which is how I can use kbin and see all the content here even if it's from Lemmy?

edit: thanks everyone for the answers :)

[–] paorzz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

There’s some videos that explain it well. For example this one by simply explain.

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