@Madison_rogue thank you, that helps.

@can excellent. Thank you so much.

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

Kbin and Lemmy and Mastadon (and others) can all federate with each other, so posts and comments are all shared. They all speak the same underlying protocol – ActivityPub.

https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/t/58451/I-am-new-to-the-Fediverse-I-vaguely-understand-how

Could someone tell me what jerboa is? That’s the second time today I’ve seen that name.

Thank you. That makes a lot of sense. I didn’t know they spoke the same underlying protocol.
For fun and experimentation, I’m answering you from my Kbin account. I feel like a kid in a candy store playing with this new technology. Maybe Reddit’s suicide-by-greed is not entirely a bad thing.