As far as I know, https://startrek.website is the first “small” instance to grow beyond 10k users, and that’s enough to deserve a “BestOf” topic in my books.
Lemmy users should be able to access it by clicking here
I think kbin users have that whole magazine thing and it needs to be a link like this instead??
No, an instance is an entire website. The instance is startrek.website; an equivalent to a subreddit, /r as you say, would be /c (a “community”) on Lemmy, or /m (a “magazine”) on kbin.
But is the website integrated at all to Lemmy or kbin or is it just a stand alone thing? If the latter, why do we care about instances here aside from it being independent of reddit? IMHO i think it would be cool if all the instances act like communities or magazines and can be integrated so a user of either can visit and post like it is part of the lemmy/kbin universe…
Lemmy and kbin are pieces of software that run websites. Like WordPress, but for Reddit-like sites instead of blogs. startrek.website is running Lemmy.
This is basically how it works, only each instance can host multiple communities.
Both Lemmy- and kbin-based websites are able to connect to each other and pass content around to other websites that run Lemmy or kbin. So, you can have lemmy.ca/c/politics be about Canadian politics, and feddit.uk/c/politics be about UK politics, and you can access both of them from startrek.website or kbin.social, or even mastodon.social or calckey.social if you want.
Yah this makes sense. Just wondering why star trek Mag is incomplete and how long it takes to sync?
When a remote group is first discovered by local user, their instance creates a local space for that group and creates a link to it. On kbin, I think that’s all it cutrently does, though on Lemmy sites they also pull in a few recent posts.
Once a user actually follows a group, though, their instance subscribes to it as if it were an actual magazine subscription. New content gets sent to it, and shared among anyone who follows it, but old content doesn’t, any more than National Geographic sends new subscribers their whole 150 years of back issues.
Older content can get pushed out to newer subscribers if people boost those older posts, though. That would be the equivalent of the publishing world’s re-issuing of an old edition.