If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that’s for the future of us all.
Not quite. Lemmy.world is the instance. I’m from the instance lemmy.sdf.org and I also hang out on feddit.uk . The instance names are just URLs (.world, .uk, and org are all like .com).
Handwavy explanation because I’m fuzzy on details: Federation is the magical interconnection between instance lemmy.sdf.org and instance lemmy.world that allows me to see posts/threads/users on the lemmy.world instance .
Hmmm…I think this is the best explanation I’ve had so far.
I certainly don’t mean this negatively, but I get the impression a lot of the people here that actually understand it are also bad at explaining it to normies like me. And people like me are very much in the minority at this stage in the growth.
Aww, thank you.
It’s a hazard of really knowing what you’re talking about that leads to overestimating what other people know. I don’t have that problem 😉. Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2501/ .