Picture needs to be updated: it shows too many connections with Beehaw.
This would have helped me years ago when I was kind of confused on Mastodon. Very nice intro to new users.
Might I suggest a "single column" version as well, for the folks on mobile devices? 😁
I like how the portmanteau visual for fediverse is a car crash lmao
Where does kbin fit with lemmy? Is it a competitor? I see a lot of posts pointing to lemmy communities. Can people create new kbin communities like lemmy?
Kbin reminds me of slashdot, maybe it’s the UI
Thanks for asking this!
I set up accounts on both in the hysteria of leaving reddit.
I think I get how the various lemmys work/interact, I just don't know how Kbin fits into the picture.
I am just using my laptop, not on mobile devices yet.
Third day here, so still learning and giving lots of time and patience for the dust to settle
Great graphic. The only thing that is unmentioned and potentially confusing is that the same community names can exist on multiple instances, just like email addresses can do.
I don’t know how to easily boil that down to a simple graphic.
"go to lemmyverse.net and find the biggest"
This is so well done!
Thank you, this is very well made and covers all the basic questions!
I'd also like to add that you can get very cool usernames by joining smaller instances, since usernames don't have to be unique between instances ;)
Yeah, that's true.
Says the guy with pride who snagged python on the biggest obviously programming instance :-) nice one!
Indeed! I'm not even a python programmer (I do Delphi but was recently moved into PERN) I just like the snake and have been going by variations of python for years lol
I find that comparing it to email makes it click the fastest. Everyone knows that you can email someone no matter which email provider they use.
Awesome @[email protected], thanks for this
not actually mine , credit is on the bottom left, but I cant even re-load the image, let alone lemmy.world, it's all so slow. I was actually trying to find the original to link to someone else and couldnt load lemmy.world
a simple and nice introduction to Lemmy, Mastodon and Fediverse really helped my stupid ass. thank u
This is great but beehaw defederated from Lemmy, Kbin, etc so we can see but can’t interact with them.
Beehaw defederated from a couple specific Lemmy servers, not Lemmy overall.
Beehaw's instance page lists instances they have blocked.
So can Lemmy users see Mastodon stuff as well? I've tried to look up stuff from Lemmy on my Mastodon instance and it doesn't work, but on my Mastodon server I can see my Lemmy account, but nothing on it.
I think you'll only be able to see your posts, and not your comments. So if you have no posts, you'll have nothing to show mastodon users.
One thing that I think is neat, and others think is a problem, is that you can @ tag any mastodon user with Lemmy and vice versa, and they'll get a ping and be able to respond to it and join the conversation.
Interesting, I'll try it: @dhamster@[email protected]
Edit: Nope, maybe because this is a comment.
Thank you! This clears up so many questions I had
This is amazing, sending this to my less tech savvy friends!
This is an excellent illustration!
Newb to the fediverse here. This graphic is really helpful. One, probably dumb, question: where does something like kbin.social fall into this? Is it part of the fediverse or a different *verse?
kbin is also a part of the fediverse. It’s similar enough to Lemmy that (as far as I can tell) they seem to be virtually interchangeable.
Kbin is sorta like an alternate Lemmy client.
A bad comparison would be like Hotmail vs gmail. Both are email, but slightly different interfaces.
Basic
To access/join communities on other instances, would I need to create an account on that instance? In the graphic it says I can only search for communities on that instance.
You can access and subscribe to communities in other instances as long as they are still federated (connected) with the instance your account is in.
Thank you! Still learning the ropes!
If you want to subscribe to a community on another instance, copy the URL of the community and paste it into the search of your own instance.
It might take several seconds while it searches but it should eventually show up, then you can click/tap on it and then click the subscribe button in the sidebar.
You don't have to make a new account for that instance, and communities on other instances should show up on search :)
This is amazing, but we do need a shorter version!
Should have mentioned a bit about defederation in that image as well
Thank you! Still learning the ropes!
Beautiful saving to help others in the future.
thats a big boy
Thanks for making this, this is very helpful to explain to everyone.
this was super helpful. Thank you for making this
Thank you this was very helpful
Awesome stuff!! Hero’s work!!
Thank you for this, it's a wonderful visual!!!
Thank you so much for sharing this! As a newcomer, this help me understand Lemmy much better :)
Thx for this information it's very clear !
