I agree. Firstly, a public post...and secondly...a public post bashing a fellow developer with passive aggressive quotes.
Now I may be assuming but it didn't seem like LitigiousEmma mad an attempt to privately contact Ernest and... and assumed the worst in the post.
I'm just a reddit normie so I don't know what happens behind the scenes but so far Ernest has been earnest and honest... as long as that is the case I'll stand with you bud!
You made a mistake and are taking responsibility for it. I respect that!
P.S. - Notice how LitigiousEmma's post is recent. LE just wants their name out there. If Kbin flopped then no fs would be given.
Alright, so...I cannot find the person that posted this explanation but I think it makes more sense than the 'email analogy'.
Imagine the fediverse as a universe. Full of other solar systems and we are in the Kbin.social system
Now when we talk about Earth, we know it's in our solar system but what if another solar system also has an Earth, then what? Well, then we'd make sure to say which system it comes from, like Earth@ProximaCenturi or Sun@AndromedaGalaxy.
Same thing applies when we talk about places here, for example c/memes. When we talk about our memes we don't need any more info...it's the memes in our 'solar system'. But I want to talk about memes from the lemmy system and to do that I'd add the location info like [email protected].
Tldr: instances are like other solar systems and magazines are like planets in those solar systems. We can hope in our ship and visit any other planet in the other solar systems