Going to be a big moment in internet history, how we decide to handle this will shape how the internet is used and content is consumed for the next decade

I feel like I just got the hang of it, so here let me try:

Imagine you live in a city (the internet). There are a bunch of good samaritans who have built massive houses (instances like kbin.social, mastodon.social, Lemmy.world, peertube etc.) that can host tons of people and also give you the construction plan for the houses, so you can choose to make your own kbin.bustanutella if you want to. Just because you're in a different house than your friends doesn't mean you can't communicate or interact with them. You don't even need to be a member of the same house to interact with them or any posts from their home. All that needs to happen is that both your house and your friends house need to agree to open their windows to each other, which is pretty standard as instances usually federate with each other freely unless an instance does something bad (spam, violating ToS, etc.)

So now, when your friend takes a shit on the floor of his house (makes a post), you get to see it and interact with it from the comfort of your own home. To interact with your friends, you would go to your own home and look through the window (login on your instance and search for the community URL or friend URL)

From all the use cases so far, it does seem like it is social media right now, but I don't see why it can't expand to other areas once adopted by enough people.

You can do it using an extension on the browser. You can find the thread here

Blew the chance to snag m/football, disappointed

We should ideally not reccomend a server and instead direct them to the launch page so that they can pick their own instance. This will allow us to balance the influx as well as put in safeguards against any instance owner ever pulling a u/spez

I remember reading a similar question regarding mastodon and the answer was that the code is open source, every instance, server, community can download a copy of it and customize their experience. The Kbin admin or anyone else does not own all the servers that host the vast number of instances. So even if they were to sell the already open source code, or threaten to pull the plug on the project, the code is available for everyone to just continue like nothing happened, and for the community to take over and develop it how they see fit.