Reddit has informed moderators of communities that are still private in protest that they will lose their mod status by the end of the week. Thousands of communities went dark earlier this month to push back on the company’s planned API pricing changes.
The thread you are commenting on is on a lemmy instance, lemmy.world, submitted by a user registered on that instance.
You and I are both users registered on kbin.social.
We can all see each other’s submissions, submit content on communities, comment on them, etc.
If you are registered on a kbin instance, you’ll be using the kbin Web UI to view the same content. That’s what differs.