I thought kbin was already federated and compatible with lemmy?
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It was, and then it wasn't as the admin had to enable Cloudflare DDOS protection during the Reddit surge. This broke federation, but it's back off now and Kbin's back in the fold.
I‘ve been commenting and upvoting stuff on lemmy all day long from kbin, no idea how that would be possible if they weren‘t federated.
Federation was turned back on well before this was posted. Like probably a day or two or three ago.
Can someone please ELI5 federation to me? I keep seeing threads and comments about this but I don't understand the concept. Does federation essentially just mean connecting all different instances and platforms across the fediverse which is how I can use kbin and see all the content here even if it's from Lemmy?
edit: thanks everyone for the answers :)
Good news: You are already federating with the greater fediverse! Mastodon checking in. :)
Hello there to anybody on KBin reading this, feel free to throw memes at me