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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (17 children)

@Lemmyin I just want that Infinity for Reddit get Lemmy and Kbin added to it.
By far the best Reddit client. I really love the gesture navigation on it.
There's no other app close to it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was looking at jerboa and it called Lemmy a β€œfederated” alternative to Reddit. What does federated mean in this context?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It refers to the fact that communities belong to a specific instance. These instances can federate, as in "be a whole, made out of two", or stay separate and stay isolated

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There is no central Lemmy servers. Everyone can run a Lemmy server, which is called an instance. The instances talk together and sync posts and comments between them.

The admin of an instance (usually the owner of the server) is in total control of what goes and what does not on the instance, and which other instances to federate (sync) with.

When you create a community, you choose an instance that the community lives on. The community is then in the hands of the admin of that instance and the mods assigned by the admin to that community.

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