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  • They would have to login to sh.itjust.works.

    nope. every instance can post to any other instances groups. my ‘home base’ instance (moist) has almost no local communities, but the users can interact with all of the lemmyverse

    if you look at the group list you’ll see they are all remote groups that local users can subscribe and interact with locally

    my instance has a ‘copy’ of the remote content. when a local user interacts with that content, it is sent to the other instance.

    its what the ‘federation’ in the fediverse means. all users can subscribe/upvote/interact with ‘remote’ instances. the actions of the users are federated between instances.




  • kbin was the perfect storm of single developer and reddit migration. honestly, ernest could have saved everyone a lot of time and effort had they listened to the community 10 months ago when they were begging for more involvement.

    account portability is a big topic in 'verse developer circles. i think it is inevitable at some point, but its highly complex and will take some serious ActivityPub cooperation and standards. that we utilize addresses as names for both users and content is a big nut in the works.

    in the meantime, users should focus on community organized and operated instances. a shining example of this is beehaw.org

    also please dont forget this ecosystem is still in its infancy. the kinks, they are being worked on but its still the bleeding edge of social media tech, which can be painful.