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YSK that kbin.social is now federating, adding hundreds of communities and ~26k more users content - Lemmy.world (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 2 points 2 years ago

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 :)

[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah. I'm a https://Lemmy.world user.

The fact that you and I are talking right now is called Federation. In fact, people over here at lemmy don't even know what a kbin (or magazine) is. They're called "communities" over here.

[-] AtomicPurple@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yup. Seems like you understand the concept just fine.

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