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I still don't understand if I'm on Kbin or Lemmy. I have a Kbin login so this is Kbin right? But I can view subs/magazines/federations on lemmy? But not all of the content? And I can comment/interact with those Lemmyubs/magazines/federations if i'm on Kbin, but not with the same account if I go to Lemmy? WTF is going on.
The way it should work is everything can interact with everything unless its defederated.
While you're on kbin, the servers share basically everything under the hood, so the distinction isn't that strong. Compared to Lemmy, you'd see a different interface and some features may differ, but the underlying content is basically the same whether you're on kbin or Lemmy. So despite being different products, it's basically one big community. The likes of Mastodon are technically in there too, but the threading structure of kbin and Lemmy means you'll mostly see those two products sharing content.
Though note that the specific site you're on does control things like the sorting of posts. What's hot for a kbin user might not be for a Lemmy user. Similarly, sites could hide or block some kinds of content if they want to. Eg, I think kbin probably did something to filter porn off the front page, cause I don't see porn anymore unless I look for it. Beehaw is another good example here. It's a Lemmy instance that decided to block the biggest other Lemmy servers to limit access to their communities.
TL;DR: same content, different interface for viewing and interacting with the content.
Same. I think I only have the kbin and am not sure if I have the lemmy. I keep seeing posts like this talking about it so I must be. Fuck am I old?
In case the email analogy doesn't work for you, let me let me try to explain. You're on kbin, you can tell because your username ends in @kbin.social, which is a kbin instance. Instance is just another name for a server. Due to federation you can view and comment on threads from any other federated instance. You can also join maganzines (called communities on Lemmy, groups on mastadon, and subreddits on reddit) from any other federated instance as well. The only thing I don't think you can do is become a moderator on another instance. Note, the content is being brought to your kbin feed because we are federated, if you go to to the original instance you've left the website and thus won't be logged in. There's nothing to stop you from making another account with a Lemmy instance, but there's not really any reason to because you can see the same content.
and am not sure if I have the lemmy.
You don't. You are logged in to a kbin account but, just like if you were logged in to a lemmy account, you can read and post to the same threads and comments. Just like if you were logged in to your gmail account you can send an email to somebody with a hotmail account or another gmail account. Doesn't matter.
In kbin's UI, on every thread you can click "more", then "copy url" to see what the origin of the thread is - if it shows another domain name like lemmy.ml then you know you are looking at a thread that originated on a different "fediverse instance". Likewise you can also look at the URL of a username to see where they are posting from.
Lemmy presents things a little bit differently from kbin, and when things are federated to different instances there's no guarantee we see exactly the same things as each other(voting stats, replies etc.) What we do get is roughly enough to have a discussion, though.
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I think in a blog when I was googling reddit alternatives. They mentioned lemmy and tilde and I liked the decentralized nature of it.
from someone I can't remember commenting about it on one of the blackout protest posts from Reddit
A few days ago I googled reddit alternative and r/RedditAlternatives showed up at the top with a pinned topic mentionning lemmy, kbin and others
I saw it on a r/Dataisbeautiful post, pointing out how fast Lemmy was growing. Figured I'd give it a try.
When considering how my posts were being used as source of revenue resulted in my looking for an alternative. I found a page that directed me to several lemmy servers and I joined basically the first one - lemmy.world. I have since begun a monthly donation (since I do not have the ability to run my own instance) and haven't looked back.
Using my kbin.social user, although I have a lemmy account too (sopuli.xyz).
I find out about Lemmy after I joined Mastodon last year, on April. I don't remember if I was told about Lemmy by another user, or it was me who was digging on other fediverse projects. I liked the idea of a federated Reddit-like, but I didn't get very engaged because it had few users, and I was still learning about federation and instances. Now it's different and more awesome.
Just recently, thanks to the awful meltdown going on over at Reddit.
I found out about Lemmy about 3 years ago in a random Reddit thread, and been mostly lurking since then.
I was slowly migrating to mastodon, and that's where I clicked on some guy's profile, and he had a link to kbin.social in his profile. After I visited the link, the site interface felt instantly familiar to me, so decided that kbin would be my new home.
I saw a post from earnest and he started following me on mastodon. Then joined kbin during the reddit migration, and kept up with @stux when he started up Geddit.social
Old account here. I was directed to Hexbear after r/cth was banned from Reddit. Later on, I learned about other instances. Federation wasn't a thing back then; I made an account here to check federation out once it finally released.
In a Facebook chat group, set up by Hungarian leftist tech guys.
From FMHY community.
Used Reddit for 15 years and was pissed off that Sync was going away, so I actually found Lemmy through googling for Reddit alternatives.
Random comment on reddit
From discussion on the unixporn subreddit about moving the sub
I think it was on /r/selfhosted or the Awesome Self-Hosted repo on GitHub about a year back. I definitely don't think it was censored by mods/admins or anything on Reddit (back then anyway). It just seemed to lack the critical mass back then. In fact, I was looking at it as a way to host a private, non-federated link sharing board for friends but never got around to it.
Fastforward to this Reddit shitshow and hearing about lemmy.ml and lemmy.world and other bigger instances I finally decided to register and try it out!
It feels like a lot of people new to the fediverse think it revolves around lemmy. It always feels a bit divisive to come across posts like this that single out lemmy. It would be nice if people asked about the fediverse or threadiverse or something. Don't forget that us kbin users (among others) are browsing the same threads and partaking in the same discussions.
I didn't know there were other reddit like federated apps out there, my bad.
The tech is incredible, posts are shared seamlessly and replies are almost instant! The threadiverse is going to have so many cool apps in the future.
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I stumbled across it a couple of years ago. Bookmarked it with a "look into" flag, and promptly forgot about it. Then, with all the reddit fuss I remembered and figured it was about time.
Found it about a year ago after looking for social media alternatives that respect privacy and are open-source. Mainly lurked for a while, but then decided to try and get some communities active here. about two or three weeks back.
Just happened to be a coincidence everything going on with Reddit started occurring shortly after.
The comments that I made on Reddit that mentioned kbin mysteriously disappeared.
I honestly don't recall, even though it was just a week or two ago. It was one of the Reddit alternatives that people were talking about, and I liked the federated aspect - it reminds me of the Usenet of old, which was my first online social experience. I tried signing up to one of the handful of non-lemmy.ml servers that were being recommended at the time to balance the load, but only lemmy.ml was actually online when I made the attempt so I signed up there.
Then I started noticing the odd popularity of Russia and China in the news communities, and around that time I heard about kbin. Again, even though I'd have loved to load-balance, kbin.social was the only one available at the time so I signed up there.
As soon as account transfer gets implemented I'll start looking to move to another instance and finally do my part to distribute things a bit more.