Kbin is the first Reddit alternative I looked at and i liked the UI so I stuck with it. I kind of assumed everything would be kbin. I thought I understood things. I thought it was kbin and lemmy separate but they federated and so I’d be able to access lemmy stuff from kbin. Which I guess is true. But now I’m confused. I look at all, and I see a post in m/main@sh.itjust.works and the post is from lemmy.world and it’s devs. I’m not subbed to m/main, so did Ernest curate /all and add it? Are people cross posting from lemmy into sh.itjust.works? I feel like I need a drawing or red string diagram.

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    1 year ago

    Clarification: the protocol is ActivityPub.

    Lemmy is open source software built on the protocol. (Kbin and others are different sofware but also built on Activity Pub)

    Instances, Lemmy.world, and Sh.itjust.works are clones of Lemmy running independently but federated.