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This seems more like a TIL post than a YSK one

I'd also encourage people to check the Lemmy explorer first before assuming a community doesn't exist just because it's not on lemmy.world. Https://Lemmyverse.net has a surprising amount of communities on it, split among so instances. We don't want a bunch of clones.

What’s an instance?

A website hosted by some kind individual or group created to host data and interface with one of the specific fediverse applications (Lemmy, Kbin, Mastadon, Pixelfed, etc).

What’s a community?

This is a Lemmy-specific term. They are topic-specific boards hosted on instances, similar to subreddits on Reddit. The Kbin term for this same idea is magazines.
Example: For Lemmy, they are represented as "!community", such as !pics. On Kbin, they are "@magazine", such as @pics.

What are federations?

I haven't really heard the word used this way, I've heard it more as an adjective or verb. This may take more than one line to explain because I literally had to see it to believe it.
To have one instance federated with another is to have them communicating with each other, so that users, posts, communities, etc on one instance can be read by uses on another instance. It's how I can read all these Lemmy posts on Kbin and comment under them, because these Lemmy instances are federated with the Kbin.social instance I'm currently on.

What's mastadon?

A federated version of Twitter.

Whats Kbin?

A federated web application that combines the link-aggregation of Reddit with the individual micro blogging threads of Twitter.

What's Activity Pub?

It's the current protocol to enable federation of all these sites we've been talking about. Federation is possible because all these sites are speaking the same language, and this is that language.
In addition to Lemmy, Kbin, Mastadon that use Activity Pub, we also have Pixelfed, Micro.blog, Nextcloud, PeerTube, and more I'm sure.

If you have any other questions, just ask!

I still need an app that does the RIF thing of hiding the little links under a post (time it was posted, by whom, also links to share share, save, hide, comments, etc.) on the main feed until I click on it. It saved a lot of screen real estate.

But until an app does that, I've been switching between Liftoff, Connect, Jerboa, wefwef, and the kbin.social PWA. They all seem to sort posts in different ways so it's actually provided a different experience each time lol.

We're kind of starting to get that, we just need to encourage people to spread out from lemmy.world and make communities in these other instances. We've got lemmy.film that's TV and film focused, pathfinder.social and another ttrpg instance, star trek has an instance, the solar punk instance, there's a couple tech, privacy, and hacker instances. I'd also like to see more local area communities in instances like midwest.social instead of all on lemmy.world, too.

Jerboa and wefwef are both pretty RIF-like. Jerboa can be buggy sometimes and wefwef is a web app rather than a native app, though. I've also been trying out Connect for Lemmy and Liftoff.

I haven't found an app that let's me add new communities that haven't been added to your instance yet, though. For that, I still have to use the web browser.

Through the HEROES Act specifically which was a pretty dumb way to do it.

But still, how the hell did they have standing? Wtf? I have no idea how I'm going to budget these with how rampant inflation has been.

There was a few things like that or the dinner I thought they could add in only at the cost of removing some scenes of Xendaya in the desert, but I have a feeling there was a requirement to have a certain amount of her for press materials lol.

I haven't read that one, but isn't that one of the super weird ones?

What is this site used for the video? A little off - topic but it looks like another YouTube?

Right? I don't care where the content comes from. That's the great thing about the fediverse.

Apparently I missed this lol. Can anyone point to the origin thread?