It's actually a copy of the original room, and there are invisible goblins synchronising all objects in the rooms so that it looks like the same room. They are also moving mannequins so that they match the movements of all the people in the other rooms.

To us it looks and feels like the same room with the same objecs and same people, so it doesn't really matter.

But sometimes an admin might order that the goblins must not sync one specific room anymore. Then you start to notice differences depending on which door (=room) you actually use.

I wouldnt say incapable. Before I joined I was unsure about this whole federation thing as well. I was worried that I have to sign up to multiple instances (and this is actually not untrue, because of defederation) but I worried too much. It's a lot easier than I imagined

There's a difference between "incapable of understanding" and "doesn't have enough background information to understand." Are there people who can't understand certain tech concepts? Absolutely. But there are a lot more people who just miss the first rung on the ladder, and can't make it to the top. They can understand when they get the explanation from the ground up, but until then, they're stuck.

I see it happen a lot when tech people try to explain something that is brand new to the listener, because when you are already able to understand something at a high level, you forget to mention the first several rungs. It's usually a great explanation, it's just not an explanation the person on the ground can use.

...also, I don't think it's failure to understand login when every instance asks for a separate login if you don't navigate there through your own instance. It's a misunderstanding that results from experiencing the fediverse without understanding how it works, not a failure to grasp an abstract concept.

A week ago, I would have said that's it's complicated, but I just login into lemmy.world and I can browse minutes of content!!!

Just so that nobody gets confused, it gets constantly synced, not just at the end of the day. That's just an unfortunate use of a common saying in this case. :)

While I am posting from a lemmy account (because I didn't know about kbin when I made it) if I was to host one of the two it would be kbin. The reason is that lemmy has some hardcoded moderation things inside it that I disapprove of. I believe I should be able to say anything I want without fear of being censored on my own self hosted instance and this comes from a leftist, I don't want to use bad words to insult people, but if I want to use them in a different context I want to be able to. If I see an argument between a bigot and a fellow lgbtq and the bigot calls my comrade with a slur I want to be able to describe the situation using the exact words used. I think maybe it's a cultural difference thing, where I live using slurs in a context where we describe a situation rather than for insulting someone it's not seen as a bad thing. We don't give those words so much power and importance to the point that even just saying the words makes people gasp. I believe that censoring some words by default without even considering the context they are being used in doesn't help, I believe it just gives the words more power while we should aim to take power away from them.

Also kbin has a much prettier UI in my opinion.

Kbin includes some mastodon/twitter-like functionality. It also makes public what you vote for and the interface is subjectively nicer. It also have PWA support for the main websites.

However, it doesn't have app support right now. There's significantly more development on that front with Lemmy.

For me personally, it's the cleaner (stock) UI

Found it first.

I haven't had any issues.

Is kbin not just another Lemmy instance? I keep seeing people mention it alongside Lemmy like it's something different, but it doesn't seem to be when I look.