I get the concept of the Fediverse… and signed up/in on the sh.itjust instance (only to be defederated by Beehaw, but I digress)
Wtf are “magazines”? What did I miss???
Magazines (kbin) and Communities (Lemmy) are the naming conventions for the group type of posts offered - like subreddits. Magazines and Communities are effectively the same thing, just different naming conventions from their different backbone software running on the instance.
Instances are the full server in which the communities and users are held. Like sh.itjust.works is an instance - it’s the page where you can log into in order to then interact with anything both housed within your instance as well as the greater fediverse (barring any defederated instances, as you mentioned).
Magazines are, broadly speaking, what lemmy calls communities
I thought kbin calls them magazines and lemmy calls them communities
Yep. Magazines are kbin things, and they’re the equivalent of the things that lemmy calls communities
Magazines is just what they call communities/subreddits on kbin. Instances is the server/site those communities/magazines are made in
As for beehaw… just stay away from communities made there for now regardless of your instance, because you won’t be able to interact with a major portion of users in those communities (those of us from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works)
is kbin eventually going to deviate too far from how all the other lemmy nodes work?
Just a thing on kbin I think
Dont worry about beehaw. They’re irrelevant now.
