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Um I don't really understand that thought. Is there an official Lemmy app? What do you think "third party app" means? Posted from Jerboa for Lemmy..
we're not all using lemmy ;)
I'll be honest: I can see that you're using kbin.social, but I have no idea what the difference is between that and lemmy. Also, are lemmy.ml and lemmy.world even affiliated with one another? Initially, I thought yes, but now I'm thinking it's just a similar name for brand recognition purposes, but the four sites below (plus hundreds of others) operate independently from one another and can only see content from the other instances if they select to do so?
Lemmy.ml
Lemmy.world
Beehaw.org
Kbin.social
It's not about brand recognition, it's about spreading the users out over multiple servers so no one instance gets too big/costly/unmanageable. Beehaw just defederated themselves from Lemmy for having "too many trolls from open sign up policy". I can still see and interact with beehaw from kbin for now, idk how long that will last because kbin also has open sign up.
Jerboa is made by the Lemmy developers so it's as close as you can get to an official app