EDIT: everything is alright as it is. But just in case others run into the same “problem”, I’ll keep this post public for others to see (if that’s ok, of course)

The original question:

Please be gentle as I am a total noob on this site and I’m still in the process of figuring out how any of this works.

Shortly after I joined, I created https://lemmy.world/c/breath_of_the_wild and I’ve been uploading my content from reddit to that community since then. Today I got a question from someone on kbin.social and I decided to check out this other instance(?) only to find out that “my community” is run by another dude over there: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

I have no idea who this Ernest guy even is, but as you can see this is clearly 1:1 the content I posted to my own community. I’ve literally never spoken to him before. What’s that about?

  • czech
    5•1 year ago

    Ernest is the creator of kbin and the admin of kbin.social. When another instance federates with your community it creates local copy of your community on that instance. The first admin of the kbin instance is always listed as the “owner” of the federated community but they cant actually take any moderation actions in your community. I believe the admin of the federated instance can moderate what appears on their instance though.

    • Wolf Link 🐺OP
      3•1 year ago

      Ooooh okay… that make sense. For a moment I honestly thought someone was just lazily mooching off my content (it has happened before, sadly) but if that’s basically the default setup for every community not native to kbin, then I don’t have anything to worry about. =)

      Thanks for explaining! ^^

        • Wolf Link 🐺OP
          1•1 year ago

          Huh, weird. When I click that link, it does show the community and the sidebar/rules, but not a single post. Is that supposed to happen?

            • Wolf Link 🐺OP
              1•1 year ago

              As long as it does start syncing eventually, that’s fine with me. I would just have found it weird to kinda “block” that particular community/magazine/etc. across all instances if the end users don’t even get access to the content.

              … but then again, the Fediverse is probably just overwhelmed ATM so things like these slow down for a while. It’ll probably get better once the dust settles a bit after the reddit exodus (reddodus? rexodus? exoddit? I can’t think of a good portmanteau)