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[–] Feugnis@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What's the difference between kbin and lemmy?

[–] Metaright@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're both Reddit-esque Fediverse platforms, but are developed and maintained by different people.

[–] Feugnis@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy has been around longer, so it is probably more robust, but Kbin has more features, including the ability to follow individual users across the 'verse, and has support for a number of Fedi groups, including Friendica Forums and Guppe Groups, that Lemmy has no support for.

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I thought kbin was more like Mastodon, but maybe I'm confusing it with something else.

[–] jared@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kbin is basically lemmy plus mastodon.

[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is its own community that happens to be federated with Lemmy and Mastodon. You can toggle federation on and off, and when off, you only see kbin's material. Otherwise it functionally acts like another lemmy instance, with a different interface and features missing from base lemmy.

There is also a microblog attached to it that connects with Mastodon in the same way. Each community has its own microblog that acts as a hashtag when on Mastodon.

[–] callyral@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

i'm pretty sure when federation is off it also means you won't see other kbin instances, just your own

[–] Metaright@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This I didn't know. So posting a comment on the microblog will make it visible to Mastodon as well?

[–] Dee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And Lemmy, they all talk to each other via ActivityPub. There's a number of commenters in this thread that are commenting from Mastodon and Kbin (like yourself) while I'm on Lemmy.

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Lemmy isn't designed to access microblogs or follow individual users though, so you'd probably never see it from Lemmy.

[–] Teppic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This is where I link my own post from a few days ago - but basically to say kbin is actually a very good way to browse Mastodon "Toots", and yes you can post just as easily too.
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/275724/Browsing-the-wider-fediverse-from-kbin

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are different platforms, you can access Lemmy communities from Kbin, where it looks just like a kbin magazine, or from Friendica, where it looks just like a Friendica Forum, of from Mastodon, where it looks like an annoying bot that re-posts every comment as a separate Re-toot.


There are many other Fediverse platforms but those are the ones I have the most experience with.

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I haven't yet seen actual federation. (That I was aware of, anyway.)

How would I access something on Mastodon from Lemmy (for example)?