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When introducing members to kbin/lemmy don't mention the fediverse! (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Haunting_Tale_5150@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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I introduced kbin to someone today who asked what the fediverse was. I answered for them of course, but it made me realize that the concept is still technobabble for most people. The average joe probably doesn't care or notice that server A is really talking to server B. Just have them find out on their own and if a mass migration does need to happen from A to B, just make a standard announcement.

TLDR; most people's reactions to the word fediverse.

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[–] duringoverflow@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it already works, partially. You can go to search and try pasting "asklemmy@lemmy.ml" . You need only the community name, if you paste the whole URL it is not working. Then, if you click on the community name's, you are transferred to https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml which is essentially the content from that community, but "inside" your current instance. The problem now is that this content is stuck in 2 days ago, when the issue with cloudflare started. When fixed, content will start being updated

@ComicSads @ChimpanzeeThat @Kichae @CMLVI

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that content being updated, though? Or was that community simply imported before syncing was off, and is now stale?

This is why some knowledge about how things work is important. Accessing https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml does not access the remote community. It accesses a local mirror of the remote community, which is updated when the remote group forwards content along.

If k-soc isn't accepting those content updates, it's not actually engaging with remote users and new content, and it's not se ding along local content addressed to the remote group.

It's interacting with a ghost.

[–] duringoverflow@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that content being updated, though?

did you read my comment till the end?

[–] CMLVI@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think the question is when cloudflare is no longer needed, will interaction with the content be "live" vs only when instances send/receive data. It's a reasonable question, no need to be impatient. A lot of people are learning right now.