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I took a quick look while it was up and it was just a user guide, similar to the lemmymigration subreddit

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry if this is a dumb question - wtf is Kbin? I ass it mentioned on here everywhere, is it another Lemmy instance? I feel out of the loop!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

kbin is part of the federation - like Lemmy - but it is coded differently and has a different developer. Since it is part of the federation, though, Lemmy users can subscribe to kbin communities (called magazines) and vice versa. kbin has threads like Lemmy, but it also has a micro blogging option similar to Twitter/Mastodon.

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

Oooohhhh okay so it's not Lemmy but they're in the same family and can talk to each other in a way?

[–] Mane25 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Since it is part of the federation, though, Lemmy users can subscribe to kbin communities (called magazines) and vice versa.

How does one do that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's bugging out right now, probably because of the massive amount of traffic, but once things calm down you should be able to search for a magazine by full URL (https://kbin.social/m/gaming, for example) in communities, switch all search settings to "All", wait for your instance to pull in the magazine and click through to the federated URL (should look like https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected], assuming you're on lemmy.world)

Basically, just like adding a community nobody else on your instance has added before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I arrived here looking for the answer to exactly this. So, that's a score for using Lemmy to solve problems like I use Reddit to.

Except the native search function actually worked.

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

If they use the same protocol, can KBin readers browse Lemmy communities?

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

They can and do. Seen quite a few Kbin users wandering around here.