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What are the practical benefits of the fediverse? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 8 months ago by JollyTreecko@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I don't fully understand how lemmy works completely yet. But for example I made an account at Division by zero and subscribe here to post. Is it not just a more inconvenient version of making a reddit account and being able to post practically anywhere?

Also what's the difference between making an account at one instant and just making one centralized account for the social media?

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[-] JollyTreecko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago

But are they different websites? I'm a bit confused because I just saw a link to what looks like a lemmy instant but the url doesn't start with a lemmy. So is it possible for someone to make a completely different website and for me to post with the same account I have now?

Say somebody makes a website with games like Kongregate or Newgrounds, could they let me post with this same account?

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago

Yeah essentially.

The idea is not that the "Fediverse" - or well any specific app - is a single site broken up to run in multiple servers.

Rather it's the inverse, it's a lot of different little websites like lemmy.world, mastodon.social, etc etc, but you can also load any foreign thread / post / account via your own (as in, where your account is) site and then comment or vote on them. There's a degree of interoperability - the federation - between all these various websites.

In the case of instances of the same app (say all the Lemmy servers) there's also interoperability in the search, which importantly allows you to discover content on other servers and largely pretend it might as well be on your own.

[-] JollyTreecko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago

wait I can use mastodon using this account? That's crazy, I think I'm getting it now.

[-] kreynen@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 8 months ago

@JollyTreecko@lemmy.dbzer0.com I am reading, up voting and commenting on this thread from https://kbin.melroy.org/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/99078/What-are-the-practical-benefits-of-the-fediverse

The way I quickly explain the Fediverse to technical folks is it is like public email with voting and open trigger tracking baked in. ActivityPub is the SMTP of an ecosystem of multiple domains and clients with varying policies and features.

What is happening with Threads is very similar to when AOL started making it easier for the people within their walled garden to interact with the rest of the internet.

@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de @Carighan@lemmy.world

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