Only heard of it recently is it another federated platform like Lemmy or pixelfed?

  • @nan
    8•8 months ago

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  • Iron Lynx
    3•1 year ago

    It looks to be another federated instance that seems to be compatible with other Lemmy instances.

  • MentalEdge
    1•1 year ago

    Yes. It’s also similar enough that the “magazines” of kbin are close enough to “communities” on lemmy, that they translate quite well. Lots of people on kbin subscribe to lemmy communities, and vice versa.

    Both pool their content fairly well, so you can pick which you like better, and still access most of the same stuff.

    • @unconsciousvoidling@lemmy.oneEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      Whenever I am directed to kbin I get a website with a feed and then the status has me not logged in … so it makes it appear as though I need a login to use this… the way people are talking on here though im led to believe you just subscribe and it’s almost seamless… sooo what am I missing ??? How do you subscribe to magazines etc with Lemmy ? It’s currently not very intuitive.

    • @feduser934@vlemmy.net
      0•1 year ago

      One problem with kbin is that the whole federation of instances thing didn’t work so well there. It seems all the users and all the content is one one server: kbin.social.

      This is concerning since it introduces a single point of failure.

      • QuinceDaPence
        1•1 year ago

        There are other instances like kilioa.org andothers I can’t remember but kbin.social is absolutely the ‘flagship’ so to speak with over 40k users. They are trying to encourage more to go to the others.

        I got on kbin.social since I didn’t know a ton about all this and figured things would go easier on the ‘main’ instance.

        Ernest did get the server upgraded and federation fixed and all that. He’s got a post about it on @kbinmeta

    • @Gamera8ID@lemmy.world
      0•1 year ago

      Can you elaborate?

      I read that Kbin defederated with Lemmy because it couldn’t initially handle the influx of new users migrating from Reddit, but that it has federated again.

      So is it a Lemmy instance, like Beehaw?

      I know that Kbin doesn’t use communities (“/c/”) but uses magazines (“/m/”) so I thought it was different.

      I also read that there was some new way to post to Lemmy from Mastadon, but I thought those were different, like Reddit and Twitter. But they both rely on something called “ActivityPub”?

      So is Kbin similar to Lemmy (by being Reddit-like), but distinct like Mastadon (which is Twitter-like)?

      I didn’t have a Twitter account, but was a heavy Reddit user. I don’t have a Mastadon account, but I’m liking Lemmy. However I have some FOMO about Kbin because I don’t understand how it all works together.

      • Ruben
        1•1 year ago

        I have been exploring Kbin a little bit and can answer some questions.

        ActivityPub is a protocol for sharing content. That content can be of multiple types like posts, threads, blogs, videos, microblogs, etc (I forgot the exact names of those types so the names might be off). On Lemmy we have communities, which are comparable to subreddits, that are hubs for ActivityPub content of the thread type. Mastodon is build for microblogs, which are similar to tweets.

        Kbin is indeed similar to Lemmy, as it also runs on ActivityPub content, but apart from having communities (which they call magazines), you can also post and read microblogs there.

        So if you like Lemmy but you’re also on Mastodon or are interested in that, maybe Kbin is more suitable for you.