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    • PupBiru@kbin.social
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      kbin is to lemmy what gmail is to hotmail

      different software, but they talk to each other. they have slightly different features and UI, but they accomplish a pretty similar goal

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        Nice, still trying to wrap my head around the separate instances. If they were truly federated, wouldn’t they all tie into each other or am I missing something?

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          They don’t tie into each other in the sense that they share login credentials or anything like that. But they do send messages - posts, comments, favourites, etc. - to each other, if those messages are requested, creating a network of synchronizing content mirrors.

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          I think the best analogy is email. Email is built around standards, and it doesn’t matter if you use outlook or gmail. That’s similar to the fediverse (the standard) and knime/lemmy (the email providers in the analogy).

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          The thread you are commenting on is on a lemmy instance, lemmy.world, submitted by a user registered on that instance.

          You and I are both users registered on kbin.social.

          We can all see each other’s submissions, submit content on communities, comment on them, etc.

          If you are registered on a kbin instance, you’ll be using the kbin Web UI to view the same content. That’s what differs.

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          Also remember that with the cross-instance propagation within the federated servers you can never really delete your post(s). (At least that’s how it was explained to me…)

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            When you delete a post, your home instance sends a federated deletion command. If every server is running lemmy/kbin as-is, then your post will be completely gone. But anyone could modify their instance to not delete posts.
            I think if you want GDPR style deletion, you would have to contact each instance admin individually.