How are lemmy and kbin related?
How are lemmy and kbin related?
I see kbin.social mentioned here and there where lemmy is discussed. How are those two related? Are they linked up, or are those completely separate communities?
Hello from a kbin instance
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Hello from fedia.io, a kbin instance
Am I able to subscribe to kbin magazines from Lemmy, or is it only the other way around? I try searching for them as [email protected] and nothing ever comes up but that might just be because it's slow to federate.
They both operate on the same protocol called ActivityPub. So that mean it is possible for Lemmy users to interact with Kbin communities (or magazines, as they call them) and for Kbin users to interact with our communities.
Technically it's also possible for Mastodon (since that also uses ActivityPub) user's to reply to posts here.. It's not very user friendly, but it is possible.
Thanks for explaining. So there's no content being missed out on by joining just kbin or Lemmy right? Just a different interface and different "local" instance?
In terms of fear of missing out on content, your safer bet is Lemmy. It has 10x the user-count and 100x the comment count according to https://the-federation.info/platform/73 and https://the-federation.info/platform/184.
You SHOULD be able to cross subscribe (to kbin magazines from Lemmy accounts and to Lemmy communities from kbin accounts), though I'm the last day or two I've heard trouble from Lemmy users trying to subscribe to kbin magazines. I expect that will blow over soon enough cross-subscription will work on again. But most of the action I've seen is in Lemmy communities. The main active kbin communities have been for "frontpage" topics like tech and news which are already well covered on Lemmy.
It's just another instance, but one that supports microblogging and some slightly different features. The fediverse is made out of instances.
Instances mainly affect where your data is physically stored (every instance has their own server) and what content moderators of your instance have decided to block (for example, they could decide to block content from a neo-nazi instance). You would still have access to all content from pretty much all other instances.
Other examples of Lemmy instances are beehaw.org, lemmy.blahaj.zone, lemmy.ml, sh.itjust.works, etc. You have a more exhaustive list at https://join-lemmy.org/instances