• Yoshizuki@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I’m interested in the other niches that you found ! I started keeping ants with my son when he found a queen outside. Now we have three colonies. We also have a cockroaches (to feed the ants) and this spring we started a snail terrarium. It’s always amazing to watch this small guy doing what they do.

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    1 year ago

    What‘s the community?

    I‘m new too and on kbin and gotta say, I don‘t even know where I am half the time, but excited to be here anyway.

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    1 year ago

    Missed opportunity to crop the meme and use one half for the post and the other half for the comment

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    I am actually kinda curious on this. How does one effectively start a community? Whats the difference between a community an instance and a server?

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      A community is just that, a community. It’s analogous to a subreddit, if you’re familiar with reddit. One can start a community by clicking “Create Community” at the top of the Lemmy webpage on your instance. This community will be hosted on your instance, say you create a community for dogs, the community would be !dogs@lemmy.fmhy.ml.

      Your instance can be compared to a email provider. The instance is hosted on a server, as in you connect to a server which has set up the Lemmy software, which connects to the ActivityPub protocol. The ActivityPub protocol is what enables kbin or Mastodon users to interact with communities here.

      Compare this to email, where an email provider (say Gmail) is hosted on a server, which you connect to. If done via a web browser, the server will direct you to their web app (the interface you use on gmail.com) which connects to the SMTP (which is the protocol that handles email).

      Just like how I can receive your email sent from Gmail on my Yahoo account, we can interact in communities together despite having signed up on different instances.

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    It do be like that.

    c/memes aside, I remember starting my own webforum on InvisionFree in 2006. Place was a barren wasteland, but in fairness it was for a very specific niche game at the time (Armored Core) and the target market was also tiny (players in the Philippines). Lo and behold, one by one people came. 17 years and a lot of host and software migrations later, that forum is still standing.

    If you build it, they will come. Eventually.

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      Armoured core was great, unfortunately I was too busy picking flax on Runescape in 2006 so never found your forum.