• steebo_jack
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    11 year ago

    Thanks for the detail explanation.

    Finally, each instance can host as many or as few magazines (subreddits) as it wants to host. The cool thing about the fediverse is even though each instance is hosted by completely different, unaffiliated people, if you make an account on one instance you can interact with magazines hosted on any instance you want.

    This is pretty much how I understand it, but with the star trek instance, when you click on the link above it goes to the site, but you need to create another login to post. If you click on the kbin link above, it says the magazine is incomplete. Is the instance integrated with the magazine so that the magazine will eventually get all the content from the instance and then you can comment on the lates topics?

    As an addition, i think i like the term communities better than magazines, but thats a whole nother thing i gotta read into…

    • Kichae
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      11 year ago

      The link is taking you to the hosting website, startrek.website, rather than the local version of it.

      Because each instance is its own independent website, going to the other websites is no different than going to any other unrelated site. You still need to log in to Etsy to shop, eBay to bid, and Amazon to leave reviews if you follow links from here.

      The magic of the Fediverse is found in mirroring content across the network. This means you’re always interacting with a local copy of content. If that content originated on the site you’re using, it’s the original copy, and if it originated on a remote website, it’s a duplicate. And, as I state in a other comment above, the copying of remote content only starts from the point at which someone on your instance first subscribed to it. So, remote groups will almost always be forever incomplete, but after a week or two of being subscribed, it doesn’t actually matter.