I introduced kbin to someone today who asked what the fediverse was. I answered for them of course, but it made me realize that the concept is still technobabble for most people. The average joe probably doesn’t care or notice that server A is really talking to server B. Just have them find out on their own and if a mass migration does need to happen from A to B, just make a standard announcement.

TLDR; most people’s reactions to the word fediverse.

  • Kichae@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If you’re staying here, this won’t be an actual problem going forward, for the most part. There are enough people here to make sure everything except the most niche remote groups are being followed, given a little bit of time.

    But as an academic exercise, the easiest way is to use the search bar on another big server. Lemmy.world, Lemmy.one, Lemmy.ml, or beehaw.org should do. Once you’ve found something that’s out there that you want syncing here, copy the originating URL (found via the Fediverse’s rainbow network icon on Lemmy-based sites, or the “copy link to Fediverse” option under “more” on kbin-based sites) and then paste that into kbin.social’s searchbar.

    Searching for direct URLs is seemingly how all Fediverse sites allow users to pull in remotely hosted content (its the same process on Mastodon, Misskey, Friendica, PixelFed, and Hubzilla, I believe). Once it’s been pulled in, you can subscribe and keep the content flowing.