I migrated from reddit like a lot of folks. I’m using kbin.social, but it seems I can also see posts from people at places like lemmy.world. How many different instances are there? How does the federated model work? So far I like what I see, but I’m also just trying to understand how things are integrated here.
a new instance doesn’t know about any other instances at first. when someone on the new instance, instance A, searches up a community on instance B, instance A now knows about the existence of instance B and starts pulling content. the more communities people on instance A subscribe to, the more of the Fediverse instance A sees.
what this means in practice is that a community can be hosted on any instance, and people from any other instance (that isn’t blocked by the community’s instance) can post and comment on it seamlessly. the community you posted this to is hosted on lemmy.world, but you have an account on kbin.social. and i have an account on sopuli.xyz!
this means that you get the freedom to pick whichever instance you want to set up your account. since each instance is its own independent website, if one instance goes down, the rest of the network isn’t affected. you could even set up your own instance on your own hardware! different instances have different rules and vibes, and if one instance is misbehaving (e.g. mods have lost control, the software is glitching and spamming other instances with too much traffic, there are nazis), other instances can block it temporarily or permanently.
as for how many instances there are, FediDB lists 1,175. no instance sees every other instance, so there isn’t an optimal one to join like some people have asked about
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
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a new instance doesn’t know about any other instances at first. when someone on the new instance, instance A, searches up a community on instance B, instance A now knows about the existence of instance B and starts pulling content. the more communities people on instance A subscribe to, the more of the Fediverse instance A sees.
what this means in practice is that a community can be hosted on any instance, and people from any other instance (that isn’t blocked by the community’s instance) can post and comment on it seamlessly. the community you posted this to is hosted on lemmy.world, but you have an account on kbin.social. and i have an account on sopuli.xyz!
this means that you get the freedom to pick whichever instance you want to set up your account. since each instance is its own independent website, if one instance goes down, the rest of the network isn’t affected. you could even set up your own instance on your own hardware! different instances have different rules and vibes, and if one instance is misbehaving (e.g. mods have lost control, the software is glitching and spamming other instances with too much traffic, there are nazis), other instances can block it temporarily or permanently.
as for how many instances there are, FediDB lists 1,175. no instance sees every other instance, so there isn’t an optimal one to join like some people have asked about