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  • steakfries@lemmy.one
    9·
    2 years ago

    See like I dont even know what you just said lol. I don’t know what an instance is or what a server means in this context, and i know what a community is kinda but no idea why they are called something.something//Lemmy.something.biz.kbin haha. and I dont know what multiple instances is.

    I’ve got a lot to learn. But hey I managed to reply to this so im getting somewhere.

    • Aninjanameddaryll@beehaw.org
      18·
      2 years ago

      Okay, here’s how I explained it to my kid.

      You’ve got the united states, that’s lemmy.

      You’ve got states, which are instances. Servers are the roads inthem ,and the things that keep the roads working.

      Communities are cities.

      Kbin is Canada. Mastadon is France, where they do things weird, but they’re working on the same basic principles.

      The fediverse is the UN.

      It ain’t exactly right, but it ain’t exactly wrong :)

    • Ryumast3r@lemm.ee
      8·
      2 years ago

      Think of lemmy as like an email (except everyone can see it). You have an email address “steakfries” and the domain you registered your email on “@lemmy.one” so if I want to email you I have to enter in @[email protected]

      I can “email” you from any domain, be it Gmail, yahoo, my own server, etc and you can likewise respond.

    • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev
      6·
      2 years ago

      Yeah that’s the problem I think, is that the majority of people aren’t familiar with how web technologies work and how all the communication happens.

      Basic users can just signup on lemmy.ml, or beehaw.org forever and just treat it like their new Reddit home.

    • DudePluto@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m probably only really a week into all this stuff and I feel like I have a solid layman’s grasp of it all. You’ll get there too :)