This was helpful, and I understand it now, thanks! It’s just SO clunky though to have to use a different URL to get to the same place depending on what instance you’re a member of. I don’t understand what the benefit of all this added complication is. I feel like good programming should make it so that when I type [email protected], whatever instance I’m in should just automatically link me to their version of the URL. Like kbin should know that that needs to go to kbin.social/m/[email protected] without me having to change anything.
And in the meantime… we’re going to have different communities for each instance because of how confusing this all is. Who decided that [email protected] was going to be the default memes community? Won’t there be other communities that pop up at [email protected] and [email protected] etc? It seems like chaos to me. How do I know which one is the right one?
My understanding with this was that lemmy was actively blocking kbin content. I don’t think it’s kbin’s fault, and lemmy/ml is being shady.