My understanding/tl;dr is that Kbin and Lemmy are both software platforms that connect to the Fediverse. They are written in different languages (PHP and Rust respectively) and are separate from each other, but they are similar and can interoperate and communicate with each other and other platforms like Mastodon too.
There can be multiple instances of these platforms, so there can be several Kbins, several Lemmys, etc. and they’re all independent and can federate between each other which just means sharing/collating content between each other.
The benefit is everything is more decentralized, no one controls everything, and everything is spread out and more resilient to issues like what’s happening on Reddit.
My understanding/tl;dr is that Kbin and Lemmy are both software platforms that connect to the Fediverse. They are written in different languages (PHP and Rust respectively) and are separate from each other, but they are similar and can interoperate and communicate with each other and other platforms like Mastodon too.
There can be multiple instances of these platforms, so there can be several Kbins, several Lemmys, etc. and they’re all independent and can federate between each other which just means sharing/collating content between each other.
The benefit is everything is more decentralized, no one controls everything, and everything is spread out and more resilient to issues like what’s happening on Reddit.