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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The Mbin software federates with both Lemmy and Mastodon at once. The Interstellar app works for it (+ also PieFed, though the latter does not currently federate with Mastodon, only Lemmy and itself). The largest Mbin instance iirc is fedia.io. By default you see the "Threads" content shared with Lemmy, but clicking the top left icon and then choosing "Microblog" will show content from Mastodon.

The terminology can be quite confusing, especially on Mbin compared to Lemmy - e.g. Lemmy-style "Communities" on Mbin are called "Magazines". The sharing between Lemmy, Mbin Threads/Magazines, and PieFed is called the "Threadiverse", while the sharing between Mastodon and Mbin Microblog/People does not have a unique name iirc (though I don't use Mbin or any Mastodon or Microblogging so apologies if I am incorrect here), so it just uses the wider name "Fediverse", which also includes the Threadiverse inside of it as well. A wiki is in progress, looking for contributors. That community [email protected] has a ton of great reading material, as too does [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 30 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Looking to be censored when the last of our democracy finally gives way?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

Lemmy.today, which I use as my home instance, is. Oregon.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/ can show others.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/ isnt always correct, because it uses IPs, so anything behind the cloud flare will look like it's from the US, even if it's not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Hi friend from the same instance!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

This is a lemmy instance ? Where is it hosted from ?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Full URL for clicky goodness: https://discuss.online/

We welcome new users! We've got a signup process to keep out spam, but it's really basic. You just have to answer 3 questions and not have it be obviously AI slop. We're generally pretty quick about approving new users, and if we're not for some reason you can ping me, @[email protected] or @[email protected].

We've got a welcome thread to point you in the right direction if you're new to the discuss.online and/or the Fediverse: https://discuss.online/post/16318079. If chat is your thing, we've also got a chatroom at https://matrix.to/#/#online.discuss:discuss.online

Lastly I'll plug the [email protected] community that I help mod as well. I just posted the weekly How was your week in the US? thread and asked how many geese everyone thinks they could take on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Posts on discuss.online get federated over to lemmy instances ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Yep, it runs on Lemmy also and federates just as you'd expect

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Was just thinking I haven’t seen your instance in a while

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

yep, bout to hit the 2 year mark.

some stats

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

GeekRoom.Tech hosted in Ashburn, Virginia, USA.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago

My whole life is a lie!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I fear that it's only a matter of time before sh.itjust.works is...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Aren't they in Quebec? They barely accept being part of Canada, I expect that nukes will flies before having Quebec joining US

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Can I open accounts on multiple instances ?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You can! I registered my first account on ml, and moved to sdf, with a third on world as a backup. You can open one on every instance if you want, or more as individual instance rules permit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yes. You're basically making a separate account on different servers, run by different people, which then share their content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago

Can you name one ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago