I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I’m a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It’s definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it’s great to see something that isn’t Reddit growing in popularity!

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    1. Yes! Kbin… Magazines, I think they’re called? And Lemmy communities send out all new posts to every subscriber across all the servers where people are subscribed to it via the magic of the ActivityPub protocol. Any comments and upvoted get saved in the local copy, and then synced over later too to everyone else.

    2. Yes, kbin is a site, sh.itjust.works is a site. We can talk because of point 1.

    3. Dunno man, haven’t tried Kbin

    4. See point 3

    5. That’s the community@server. Community = Magazine = Subreddit, all terms for the same thing. The server is where your server (Kbin) looks to grab the latest stuff for that community for you to use (see point 1).