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.

  • TCGM@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hello there to anybody on KBin reading this, feel free to throw memes at me

  • Stein@hostux.social
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    1 year ago

    Good news: You are already federating with the greater fediverse! Mastodon checking in. :)

      • Spzi@lemmy.click
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        1 year ago

        404: couldnt_find_community

        Probably because I’m from a small instance and none of my fellow lemmings has discovered it yet. Though even for big instances, someone has to be the first. So how to discover magazines?

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    1 year ago

    Now that Sync for Reddit is being discontinued I’m dropping Reddit.

    I saw a good write-up about kbin, so I signed up about a day ago and have been liking what I see - although it’s obviously still in its early stages.

    I don’t know much about Lemmy and Federation, but is it a bit like the Newsgroups of old (Usenet), where you joined a Usenet service and any posts on any service propagated across all servers?

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      1 year ago

      It was, and then it wasn’t as the admin had to enable Cloudflare DDOS protection during the Reddit surge. This broke federation, but it’s back off now and Kbin’s back in the fold.

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      1 year ago

      I‘ve been commenting and upvoting stuff on lemmy all day long from kbin, no idea how that would be possible if they weren‘t federated.