• Feugnis
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    11 months ago

    What’s the difference between kbin and lemmy?

    • Metaright@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      They’re both Reddit-esque Fediverse platforms, but are developed and maintained by different people.

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          11 months ago

          Lemmy has been around longer, so it is probably more robust, but Kbin has more features, including the ability to follow individual users across the 'verse, and has support for a number of Fedi groups, including Friendica Forums and Guppe Groups, that Lemmy has no support for.

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      11 months ago

      It is its own community that happens to be federated with Lemmy and Mastodon. You can toggle federation on and off, and when off, you only see kbin’s material. Otherwise it functionally acts like another lemmy instance, with a different interface and features missing from base lemmy.

      There is also a microblog attached to it that connects with Mastodon in the same way. Each community has its own microblog that acts as a hashtag when on Mastodon.

    • n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      They are different platforms, you can access Lemmy communities from Kbin, where it looks just like a kbin magazine, or from Friendica, where it looks just like a Friendica Forum, of from Mastodon, where it looks like an annoying bot that re-posts every comment as a separate Re-toot. —

      There are many other Fediverse platforms but those are the ones I have the most experience with.

      • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
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        11 months ago

        Interesting. I haven’t yet seen actual federation. (That I was aware of, anyway.)

        How would I access something on Mastodon from Lemmy (for example)?