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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I still don't get it lmao

I made an account with kbin because the interface most resembles reddit, but apparently that means I have a lemmy account or something?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

It might help to think of it like email. If you sign up with gmail, you have a gmail account. You don't necessarily have a microsoft account but people @outlook.com can still send your @gmail.com account email and you can still read it no matter where it's from

In a similar way, you have a kbin.social account. You don't have a lemmy account but you can still see posts from people in lemmy.world

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • you can still see posts from people in lemmy.world

So if I go to kbin.social homepage, I am in fact seeing posts to any number of sites? Or is the notionof a site not accurate? I'm still kinda confused. Despite my age I'm a fucking luddite lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, and you can see where it came from in the post header.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep, (despite them saying kbin.social beside the title, not sure why that happens) I crappily edited this to show where the ones on my homepage comes from. And while it's technically correct to say sites, it's known more so as instances for this. You can check the instance a post is on by hovering your mouse over the name of the community and waiting for the popup to show it.

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