I guess I’m both intimidated and confused as I don’t quite understand the fediverse. I joined kbin and everything is very tech heavy and over my head. Every day it becomes a bit clearer, however. I’m not proud of being tech illiterate and want to learn.
You can do it!
I had a hard time at first (I always do adapting to new technology things, technology is scary for me and it takes me more time than most). But Im guetting the hang of it and having fun.
I found it helpful to just start posting and commenting where I normally would not, just to get familiar with things (first posts required a couple tries, it happens). It helps build content here and it helps me figure thing out.
And Ive been using https://browse.feddit.de/ to find communities that interest me.
I also don’t understand a lot of how this works, but I keep telling myself it’s early yet and things are actively evolving day by day. I’m confident it will become more user friendly in time. (If it’s actually going to be successful in the “replace Reddit” goal, it’s going to have to.)
Same here. I’m currently unclear what’s different between kbin and lemmy (which I keep hearing about). I do think a lot of us old redditers are going to migrate here as things start to fall apart on the old platform. I’m glad to be part of something that’s not corporate run!
My understanding/tl;dr is that Kbin and Lemmy are both software platforms that connect to the Fediverse. They are written in different languages (PHP and Rust respectively) and are separate from each other, but they are similar and can interoperate and communicate with each other and other platforms like Mastodon too.
There can be multiple instances of these platforms, so there can be several Kbins, several Lemmys, etc. and they’re all independent and can federate between each other which just means sharing/collating content between each other.
The benefit is everything is more decentralized, no one controls everything, and everything is spread out and more resilient to issues like what’s happening on Reddit.
I guess I’m both intimidated and confused as I don’t quite understand the fediverse. I joined kbin and everything is very tech heavy and over my head. Every day it becomes a bit clearer, however. I’m not proud of being tech illiterate and want to learn.
You can do it!
I had a hard time at first (I always do adapting to new technology things, technology is scary for me and it takes me more time than most). But Im guetting the hang of it and having fun.
I found it helpful to just start posting and commenting where I normally would not, just to get familiar with things (first posts required a couple tries, it happens). It helps build content here and it helps me figure thing out.
And Ive been using https://browse.feddit.de/ to find communities that interest me.
I also don’t understand a lot of how this works, but I keep telling myself it’s early yet and things are actively evolving day by day. I’m confident it will become more user friendly in time. (If it’s actually going to be successful in the “replace Reddit” goal, it’s going to have to.)
Same here. I’m currently unclear what’s different between kbin and lemmy (which I keep hearing about). I do think a lot of us old redditers are going to migrate here as things start to fall apart on the old platform. I’m glad to be part of something that’s not corporate run!
My understanding/tl;dr is that Kbin and Lemmy are both software platforms that connect to the Fediverse. They are written in different languages (PHP and Rust respectively) and are separate from each other, but they are similar and can interoperate and communicate with each other and other platforms like Mastodon too.
There can be multiple instances of these platforms, so there can be several Kbins, several Lemmys, etc. and they’re all independent and can federate between each other which just means sharing/collating content between each other.
The benefit is everything is more decentralized, no one controls everything, and everything is spread out and more resilient to issues like what’s happening on Reddit.
It’s definitely different but in a good way. Feel free to ask questions! I’m learning on the way too.