What is the difference between kbin.socia/m/... and kbin.socia/d/... ?
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Reddit Migration@kbin.social – 1 points – What is the difference between kbin.socia/m/... and kbin.socia/d/... ?
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@MxM111 /d/ is for "domains" or "instances". these are content from other websites. /m/ is kbin's equivalent to reddit's "subreddits" and are topical groups which may or may not be hosted on kbin.social.
to clarify a bit. by default kbin focuses on /m/ "magazines" or subreddits. however /d/ lets you access the entire instance rather than just a single community.
@MxM111
@Otome-chan@kbin.social @MxM111@kbin.social so by interacting with a /d/ domain you can browse most things posted locally on a fediverse site like mstdn or hachyderm?
@swarmosythe I think it doesn't work for mastodon stuff. but for example: https://kbin.social/d/lemmygrad.ml will show you threads on lemmygrad and by lemmygrad users. https://kbin.social/m/gaming will show you kbin's local gaming magazine. while https://kbin.social/m/gaming@lemmy.ml will show you lemmy.ml's gaming magazine. https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml will show you everything from lemmy.ml communities and users.
notably though I think /d/ also grabs links to a site rather than just from a site.
@MxM111
@Otome-chan@kbin.social mmm. So it's akin to browsing on reddit by submission link to see all threads/posts with that domain, + being able to see most lemmy/kbin/potential future AP link aggregators on particular instances integrated natively?
@swarmosythe yeah /d/ works a little weird. it gets: all links to the domain, and all threads/users from that instance. the former bit works like reddit's browse by link, the latter is kinda it's own thing. by default ofc all fediverse users can comment on kbin/lemmy threads and communities. and the magazines (/m/) works like subreddits, but also have a url @ after them like how accounts on fediverse work.
@MxM111
@Otome-chan@kbin.social Thank your for the explanation, but I am still confused. Other than limiting to subreddit or magazine, what is the difference between https://kbin.social/m/gaming@lemmy.ml and https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml? Note, one is /m/ and the other is /d/.
Also, can you expand your phrase "/d/ also grabs links to a site rather than just from a site."? When I am on /d/ it still looks exactly like kbin...
@swarmosythe
@MxM111 /d/lemmy.ml covers the entire lemmy.ml site/instance. /m/gaming@lemmy.ml is a particular lemmy community. Think of it as the difference between reddit.com and reddit.com/r/gaming
@swarmosythe
@Otome-chan@kbin.social Well, but what then https://kbin.social/d/reddit.com means?
@swarmosythe
@MxM111 since reddit.com isn't a fediverse instance, that just shows links to reddit.
@swarmosythe
@Otome-chan@kbin.social So, these are all threads on kbin.social that are links to reddit? Then what about https://kbin.social/d/kbin.social? Same thing, but links to kbin.social? Meanwhile https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml are threads not on kbin, but on lemmy, with links to everywhere? I am continue being confused :(
@swarmosythe
@MxM111 so.... /d/kbin.social is super broken lol. because any "self posts" get marked as linking to kbin.social.
but /d/url.com shows three things:
links to url.com (wherever they might be posted)
users from url.com (wherever they might be posting)
threads/magazines from url.com (regardless of who posts them)
in terms of the actual website/html content, we are on kbin.social so everything is kbin.social. these urls show content pulled in from other instances.
I think it might be better if you first get a grasp on what federation is and how it works, rather than trying to tackle the messy /d/ urls.
kbin.social is a particular instance of kbin. on this site we can see stuff posted by kbin.social users to kbin.social. kbin.social also gets threads posted on other websites (called instances), such as lemmy.ml. similarly, other instance users, such as users of lemmy.ml (a different website), can post on kbin.social threads and we see them here on kbin.social.
what /d/ is doing is grabbing threads by those users on lemmy.ml (but we see them here on kbin.social, not lemmy.ml). similarly, kbin.social pulls in threads that are posted on/to lemmy.ml and lets us view them here on kbin.social. /d/ shows: all the users of lemmy.ml, all the stuff posted to lemmy.ml, and all the links to the lemmy.ml website. all of these are shown on kbin.social.
It's better to tackle the /m/ urls first, as they're easier to understand. /m/ are subreddits. so /m/gaming is the gaming subreddit for kbin.
over on lemmy.ml (a different website), they have /c/gaming. that is their subreddit.
here on kbin, we can go to /m/gaming@lemmy.ml, which shows us the lemmy.ml /c/gaming subreddit. but it doesn't show it on lemmy.ml, but rather on kbin.social, the site we're using.
so then what /d/ does, is grab all of those subreddits from lemmy.ml.
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