As I understand it, it’s a bit like email in that there is a protocol to allow different servers/websites to communicate, allowing the user to access the whole collection of Lemmies but meaning there is not one corporation or person in charge of the Lemmiverse.
This has advantages in that someone can’t pull a Spez, but disadvantages in that it can make stopping bad actors from affecting other instances.
Someone else will probably make a clearer explanation, and I’m happy to be corrected on any of this.
There is also Kbin (that I use) which can communicate with Lemmy. Since they both share the “sections/communities/groups with threads in them” concept, they can interact pretty well.
I’ve seen folks calling it the “Threadiverse” because of the different software that servers run.
As I understand it, it’s a bit like email in that there is a protocol to allow different servers/websites to communicate, allowing the user to access the whole collection of Lemmies but meaning there is not one corporation or person in charge of the Lemmiverse.
This has advantages in that someone can’t pull a Spez, but disadvantages in that it can make stopping bad actors from affecting other instances.
Someone else will probably make a clearer explanation, and I’m happy to be corrected on any of this.
There is also Kbin (that I use) which can communicate with Lemmy. Since they both share the “sections/communities/groups with threads in them” concept, they can interact pretty well.
I’ve seen folks calling it the “Threadiverse” because of the different software that servers run.