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Answer in Exactly 100 words

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Answer any question/prompt in exactly 100 words. Your answer can be a rant, story, poem, essay, anything, as long as it is exactly 100 words.

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[Explain] Somebody please explain to me in exactly 100 words how lemmy and kbin can share content if they're not the same. (self.in100words)
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[–] Andonome 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

As I understand it, it goes something like this:

  1. You are on lemmy.cafe and ask to follow [email protected].
  2. lemmy.cafe asks to follow [email protected]
  3. kbin.org makes a note to update lemmy.cafe every time someone posts to the cats magazine (but not previous posts).
  4. Someone else on lemmy.cafe looks at the 'global' feed.
  5. lemmy.cafe shows the [email protected] posts, along with all the other remote posts that were requested, and all the local posts.
  6. You upvote a cute cat post.
  7. kbin.org interprets this as a 'like' (or whatever)

The language these services share is called 'ActivityPub'.

[–] nieceandtows 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Beautiful! Great explanation, and an organic 100 words! Funny thing, I copied your comment to check the word count, and it showed 93. Took me a moment to realize that it doesn't copy the numbers, which add 7 to the total.

btw, I think you meant 6. to be a 'cute cat post'.

Great job, keep writing!

[–] Andonome 2 points 2 years ago

Cheers.

Edited.