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Overwhelmed a bit with fediverse redundancy. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I’m a bit confused as to what platform I should look to for my exodus from Reddit. First we have Lemmy which is a direct Reddit alternative. Then we have kbin which is ALSO is own Reddit alternative AND portal to Lemmy/Mastodon. Finally we have Mastodon which is the well established Twitter alternative that doesn’t really portal to Lemmy or Kbin.

I’m ok with Mastodon being it’s own thing, but what about Lemmy and Kbin? Kbin seems more secure and flexible but Lemmy is longer running with apps available on iOS and Android.

Which do you think you’ll be gravitating towards?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  • Basically, Mastodon is a microblogging platform which makes it can be alternative to Twitter or Tumblr.
  • Lemmy is a social news aggregator which makes it alternative to Reddit or Digg.
  • I haven't used kbin, but it describes itself as both. So if you like to have both the features of microblogging and content aggregators at the same platform, go try it. Kbin can do this because it and the former two uses ActivityPub, aka they are in the Fediverse so you can see and follow content from each other's platforms, just presented in the format of the platform you're in (imagine Twitter posts in your Instagram feed).

I started with Mastodon and I'm new here on Lemmy. I think Reddit alternatives are pretty straightforward in the Fediverse. I'm here at Lemmy because it's the most obvious what I came for with Reddit.
Meanwhile, Twitter alternatives here are a can of worms. There's Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Gnusocial, etc. and all of their individual forks, competing with how much "micro" or how much "blogging" each have. Luckily, with Activitypub, content are shared with each other.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@xx3r @jezebelley pretty sure you can also reply to posts from other platforms. If this works, hi from Hometown/Mastodon!