What is the difference between kbin.socia/m/… and kbin.socia/d/… ?

#RedditMigration

          • Otome-chan@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            @MxM111 so… /d/kbin.social is super broken lol. because any “self posts” get marked as linking to kbin.social.

            but /d/url.com shows three things:

            1. links to url.com (wherever they might be posted)

            2. users from url.com (wherever they might be posting)

            3. threads/magazines from url.com (regardless of who posts them)

            in terms of the actual website/html content, we are on kbin.social so everything is kbin.social. these urls show content pulled in from other instances.

            I think it might be better if you first get a grasp on what federation is and how it works, rather than trying to tackle the messy /d/ urls.

            kbin.social is a particular instance of kbin. on this site we can see stuff posted by kbin.social users to kbin.social. kbin.social also gets threads posted on other websites (called instances), such as lemmy.ml. similarly, other instance users, such as users of lemmy.ml (a different website), can post on kbin.social threads and we see them here on kbin.social.

            what /d/ is doing is grabbing threads by those users on lemmy.ml (but we see them here on kbin.social, not lemmy.ml). similarly, kbin.social pulls in threads that are posted on/to lemmy.ml and lets us view them here on kbin.social. /d/ shows: all the users of lemmy.ml, all the stuff posted to lemmy.ml, and all the links to the lemmy.ml website. all of these are shown on kbin.social.

            It’s better to tackle the /m/ urls first, as they’re easier to understand. /m/ are subreddits. so /m/gaming is the gaming subreddit for kbin.

            over on lemmy.ml (a different website), they have /c/gaming. that is their subreddit.

            here on kbin, we can go to /m/[email protected], which shows us the lemmy.ml /c/gaming subreddit. but it doesn’t show it on lemmy.ml, but rather on kbin.social, the site we’re using.

            so then what /d/ does, is grab all of those subreddits from lemmy.ml.

            @swarmosythe

                  • Otome-chan@kbin.social
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                    1 year ago

                    @MxM111 I don’t think it’s documented anywhere. but yes, /d/ is confusing because it’s a few different things lumped together, and if you don’t understand federation it can get confusing.

                    The simplest explanation might be /d/ is “stuff related to that domain name” lol. there’s not much reason to use it IMO unless you want to block a particular instance.

                    As for readme/documentation, please keep in mind that kbin is very new, hardly a month old. so everything is still very WIP and under development.

                    @swarmosythe