this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Fediverse

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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

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Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

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Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That's a 40% growth in about 12 hours!

Welcome new reddit expats!

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[–] ilovetvshows@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I hope I am not missing anything if I joined using lemmy.ml.

[–] Erymanthus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

joined using both lemmy.world and lemm.ee. seeing no problems here so far

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just signed up yesterday myself. What's with all the different domains?

[–] krigo666@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are federated instances. Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, which means distributed servers running the same service (or services) and registering in one instance gives you access to information on the other servers running Lemmy. You can have different communities ('subreddits') in different servers but they are all accessible and joinable. This way is not a centralised system.

The Fediverse is not just Lemmy, can be other services like Mastodon, etc.

[–] Puffymumpkins@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy and Kbin are open source software, and anyone can host their own server. Same with Mastodon.

We are CEO-proof

And the servers all* communicate with each other, so you can see content from one server while logged into another (the URL format would just be slightly different.)

* Well, except for the cases where a server admin decides to defederate from another server for one reason or another.

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