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What’s the difference between Kbin and Lemmy? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They’re both built on ActivityPub and look very similar, but Kbin is talked about like an alternative to Lemmy instead of an instance of it. Is it a fork? Why is it better or worse?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally, I think the fediverse just confuses new users and is a big barrier to entry. Id love to see Kbin or a Lemmy instance just be it’s own centralized thing with no federation. But I’ve only had a few days of experience with this so perhaps I will change my tune eventually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree. I think Kbin and Lemmy can learn a few things from how Mastodon operates right now... Very easy to sign up (though there's still the weird barrier to entry of figuring out which instance to sign up for), and then you're exposed to the entire federated Mastodon content pretty transparently.

By contrast, on Lemmy, you have to select "All" to see all communities across servers. And Kbin doesn't currently see federated content at all, so...

And then, ultimately, you're stuck with a new problem that the Fediverse is creating : if I want to subscribe, say, to a gaming community/magazine, which one do I pick? Every instance has its own communities on popular topics.