I migrated from reddit like a lot of folks. I’m using kbin.social, but it seems I can also see posts from people at places like lemmy.world. How many different instances are there? How does the federated model work? So far I like what I see, but I’m also just trying to understand how things are integrated here.

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    1 year ago

    That’s the fun part, it doesn’t.

    Joking aside it’s my understanding that instances grab new content from communities/magazines it knows about, as much as possible. From what I’ve been seeing, federation in both Lemmy and Kbin can be a bit wonky though, I’ve gone back to Lotide.

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      1 year ago

      Oh cool! I didn’t realize lotide federates with the latest version of Lemmy again.

      I know it was pretty frustrating for a while there, but it became clearer that everything was having federation problems.