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YSK that kbin.social is now federating, adding hundreds of communities and ~26k more users content - Lemmy.world (lemmy.world)

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This "You Should Know" post is top of ~June, for good reason. This post announced the kbin.social Federation/compatibility with Lemmy.

A huge amount of test-posts from a wide-variety of instances came in to test the new federation abilities (including from kbin.social, one of the biggest kbin communities).

I think this post shows the hope that over the long-term, we can get federation across the larger fediverse. I don't know if Mastodon is in the works, but these kinds of posts give hope.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can someone ELI5 Lemmy vs Kbin for me? I understand that they are both part of fediverse, and they seem to be accomplishing the same task... but there are people saying that they prefer one over the other or that one is better than the other. I made accounts on lemmy and kbin and I can't see any real difference as a user.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

https://beehaw.org/comment/181634

That's what I found about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Check out the microblog. That and the overall layout/design are the main differences. Imo Kbin feels like a cross between Reddit and Twitter and Lemmy feels closer to Reddit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. Am I correct in understanding that the microblog on kbin is basically a feed that is equivalent to Mastodon? That it is a separate thing from the magizines/communities there, as opposed to just another way of viewing the same data?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's my understanding. You can "boost" which effectively tweets a reddit thread under your profile. I wasn't really using that feature too much. The "reddit" part of the UI felt slick enough