/kbin - a few quick announcements - /kbin meta - kbin.social
kbin.social
Good morning! :) Today I want to focus mainly on reviewing the pull requests you've submitted. There are many great things there that will help improve the kbin experience. That's amazing, thank you! I'm also in the final stages of sorting out the infrastructure-related formalities. Soon, the situation with the website's...

It looks like kbin.social is in the final stages of migrating their site, and merging a whole bunch of improvements. Having their ~5k users federating with us again will be nice

  • solbergEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    So KBin isn’t Lemmy? But it federated with Lemmy? Also, I see Mastodon federated with Lemmy, but what’s the point of that?

    • sleepisajokeanyway@kbin.run
      3·
      2 years ago

      It’s just another UI basically. I like Kbin a lot more than Lemmy aesthetically and it was easier to get used coming directly from Reddit. Also early on there was only one instance (there’s like 3-5 now? I’m on Kbin.run) so it was a lot easier for people who didn’t understand how it works to use.

    • SQL_InjectMe@partizle.comEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Mastodon users who want to stay on mastodon can subscribe to communities on lemmy and see each post as a tweet in mastodon

    • Bryson Shepard 🌱🌻@growers.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      @solberg @Barbarian It’s more of you can message someone from somewhere else. Think of it like a mobile network, mastodon is t-mobile, kbin at&t and lemmy sprint … you can talk to anyone you want but pay your bill in one place. Same with the fedi you have one home but can talk to anyone who federates with you or speaks your language … in this case ActivityPub

      • solberg
        4·
        2 years ago

        Is it kind of like KBin, Lemmy, and Mastodon are the frontends to ActivityPub which is the backend? But I wouldn’t be able to sign into “Mastodon” with my Lemmy account or vice versa, right?

        • Bryson Shepard 🌱🌻@growers.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          @solberg Correct, you can say interact with any member of my server without having to sign-up for an actual account on growers.social which might not be your cup of tea. Same as the pixelfed sites, maybe the Instagram style isn’t your thing vs lemmy/kbin. You can use the content basically anywhere with your account you have now, your server just pulls it in. So in your search if you type @brysons@growers.social it *should* find me on my server.