I found myself logged out and Lemmy. I tried to connect to my account and it didn’t work so instead I have decided to send myself a lost password email but nothing came through. I then realized I was on lemmy.nl and not on lemmy.world
What is the difference ?! Thanks
They’re two different sites run by two different groups of people, but they can exchange messages with each other.
Just like, say, Gmail and Hotmail.
Yeah it’s federation.
A different domain (ex. .TV, .us., .gov, etc.) doesn’t always mean it’s the same site. I couldn’t find any notable cases (or court cases) but an example could be mylocalbusiness.de versuses mylocalbusiness.pt
In that situation I can create a website for my local business in Germany and not have to worry about an identically named business in Portugal potentially.
It is important to keep this in mind though because spoofing one website for malicious purposes is a real hazard.
Mmhhh okay thanks. This is so weird to have the same design and being advertised by the automod on reddit Wellthatsuck
A cool thing about the fediverse, is that it’s a bit like e-mail. You can use lemmy.ml to talk with people on lemmy.word or sh.itjust.works or most of the hundred of less known lemmy instances
In real life, if you use most large instance you’ll see the same content. Some are defederated, for example some people don’t like the Tankie propaganda on Lemmygrad.ml and some instances have a jailbait porn section leading also to defederation.
Even better, if you want to interact occasionally with other federated service like CalcKey or peertube, it might be possible from another application. e.g. seeing Lemmy post on Mastodon
Ninja edit : That video can help you to understand the federation concept https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD
This is only going to be true so long as defederation is restrained, but I’m getting the feeling that without some sort of oversight or shared rules and standards for defederation, and without neutrality, the place is going to fragment as certain admins just do whatever they like. There’s also the worrying emergence of shared block and defederation lists across instances, that have legitimate uses, but are going to cause chaos and allow certain admins to effectively gatekeep the majority of the Lemmy if there isn’t some standard they have to adhere to for what goes on it.
I might be wrong, but I don’t have the impression it’s a big issue on Mastodon. But it’s definitely a risk, and so what reddit isn’t federated at all and still interesting
The idea is that there is no standards and you are able to choose your instance by the values that align closest to yours.
https://lemm.ee/post/37715