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sauerkraus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Instances are like subreddits where the mods are top level admins, and there is no central admin above them. Anyone who wants to create an instance can host their own server. The cost of hosting is paid by the admins of an instance or by donations. Sponsors and ads are not currently feasible.
Unmoderated instances allow any new instance’s content to be displayed for their users.
1chemistdown@kbin.social 11 months ago
Instances are like Reddit, Twitter, instagram, etc. Each instance has certain rules that may vary from the parent they forked from (see beehaw vs Lemmy.ml). Those instances will then have a structure like subreddits, posts, comments, etc.
Lemmy is similar to Reddit. Communities (c/*) are subreddits
Mastodon is similar to twitter. Microblogs are tweets.
Kbin combines Lemmy and Mastodon.