Kbin is the first Reddit alternative I looked at and i liked the UI so I stuck with it. I kind of assumed everything would be kbin. I thought I understood things. I thought it was kbin and lemmy separate but they federated and so I’d be able to access lemmy stuff from kbin. Which I guess is true. But now I’m confused. I look at all, and I see a post in m/main@sh.itjust.works and the post is from lemmy.world and it’s devs. I’m not subbed to m/main, so did Ernest curate /all and add it? Are people cross posting from lemmy into sh.itjust.works? I feel like I need a drawing or red string diagram.

    • Horselover Fat@lemmy.world
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      Your instance becomes aware of the existence of another instance when just one user subscribes to a community there. From then on it will appear in all.

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      A lemmy.world user posted in a sh.itjust.works community. Then it’s propagated too all federated instances via a protocol called ActivityPub.