I joined early last week and the joinfediverse wiki helped me better understand how it's federation worked. Maybe that would be a good place to start ๐
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This magazine is dedicated to discussions on the federated social networking ecosystem, which includes decentralized and open-source social media platforms. Whether you are a user, developer, or simply interested in the concept of decentralized social media, this is the place for you. Here you can share your knowledge, ask questions, and engage in discussions on topics such as the benefits and challenges of decentralized social media, new and existing federated platforms, and more. From the latest developments and trends to ethical considerations and the future of federated social media, this category covers a wide range of topics related to the Fediverse.
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Welcome! It's pretty easy actually.
Everyone with a little bit of technical knowledge can set up their owner server, also called an "instance".
Users sign up for a instance and get access to the communities created on the instance they signed up for but also to the communities of other servers because they can communicate with each other.
The big advantage is that it's not a walled garden. Unlike reddit where one company controls everything, if someone here we're to pull a "Spez" (what Reddit did) they would be laughed out of the room because each server is owned independently.
Currently there's two popular softwares to run these servers: Lemmy and Kbin. But that's just a program that server owners run. I believe there's currently over 300 servers that are running one of these softwares to create this distributed social network.
There's cat pictures. Also some open discourse. Mostly cat pictures.
@piezzo heya. so there's probably 3 timelines you're looking at:
federated - this shows off public toots from all servers that kbin.social knows about. lotta stuff in here, it pretty much never stops
local - toots from people on the kbin.social server
home - tools from people you're following (this'll be near dead at the start)
i'd recommend you scroll thru federated or local for a while, and find interesting people to follow
@mightyweasel These are good tips for Mastodon users, but the thread starter @piezzo uses #kbin. That GUI and settings look different.
@mightyweasel thank you very much for all of this information. definitly will add some details about me and a pic later!