We Distribute is teaming up with Bonfire to develop a new kind of social instance - one that elevates curation and discovery to promote all things Fediverse. It’s a social instance, but also a discovery portal.
We Distribute is teaming up with Bonfire to develop a new kind of social instance - one that elevates curation and discovery to promote all things Fediverse. It’s a social instance, but also a discovery portal.
An instance effectively is the website. Just a more techy term. Lemmy.ml is your instance and hikki.team is mine. You write something on your site (lemmy.ml), I get it on mine (hikki.team), and vice versa. This is possible because our two sites interact between themselves (i.e. “federate”).
The overall process is like this:
Now, if you decide to reply to me, it will go that same way in reverse.
Here’s a quick doodle:
From a user perspective, the interaction within an instance or between them doesn’t differ at all, and that’s the whole point. No matter where you enter Lemmy, you connect to all of it. You see my reply regardless.
It’s not just Lemmy, either. People coming to PieFed/Kbin/Mbin can also see this post, the comments, and reply to them. The software they use affects their user experience, but doesn’t change their ability to connect with others. That’s one of the key promises of Fediverse - ideally, all Fediverse instances (websites) running any Fediverse software should interact in this way, forming a single network that everyone interacts with in their own way.
Thanks for taking the time for making that explanation. Maybe i was unclear in my question, i was asking how the specific fedizen project was working from a users point of view: e.g. it has curated collections of communitities: do I, as a user, need to go to the fedizen website to experience this? Or is it federated somehow? This was not clear from the announcement. To me at least.