One thing I don’t get right now, is how kbin/lemmy interact with each other?

When I subscribe to /m/technology here on kbin, do I get to see /c/technology posts from lemmy and can interact with them from within kbin? Or would I need to separately subscribe somewhere, or even register a new account on lemmy?

Also, If they’re automatically federated, then how does it work with /m/askkbin and /c/asklemmy, both with different names.

Thanks!

  • kuontom@kbin.social
    13·
    1 year ago

    The important thing to understand is that kbin.social and a lemmy instance like lemmy.ml are federated but still different websites. Therefore the magazine /m/technology is different from the lemmy.ml community /c/technology. It’s just that you can access lemmy.ml magazines from kbin.social and vice versa.

    Across instances, magazines are not uniquely identified by their name, but by their address. The address of the kbin.social magazine /m/technology is [email protected], whereas the address of /c/technology on lemmy.ml is [email protected]. You can subscribe to both from kbin itself. If you’re on kbin, just ‘technology’ is interpreted as [email protected]. So the magazine page for kbin magazines is kbin.social/m/magazineName and the page for magazines from other federated websites is kbin.social/m/magazineName@website.

    /m/technology -> kbin.social/m/technology
    /c/technology -> kbin.social/m/[email protected]