That's great, it's been a bit odd not being able to have access to half the fediverse.
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kbin seems rather promising.
Haven't really played around with it much since the federation part wasn't working. Anyone been using it more and care to chime in with their experiences compared to Lemmy?
The only reason federation wasn't working was because they had to turn on CloudFlare protection just to keep the site from crashing. That interfered with federation. Assuming they're able to upgrade enough to handle the traffic, they'll federate as easily as lemmy does.
Yeah, I saw that. Just thinking general usage when everything's working as intended.
Their UI looks nice at least and it seems to have quite a few users.
How long has federation not been working? I've only been here a few days.
I haven't really used it, so this is all second-hand:
As far as I understand, it's a younger project with more papercuts than Lemmy, but more features. Instead of just being a link aggregator like Reddit/Lemmy, it's also got microblog functionality so it plays better with Mastodon. For users of Mastodon, having a one-stop-shop for both services is pretty handy.
It's much harder and more problematic to set up kbin instances, so almost everyone just uses kbin.social. This means it's a very centralized fediverse platform compared to Lemmy, but that might be seen as an advantage to some.
Yeah, I can see how that centralization could be both a positive and a negative. Sounds kind of nice to have a central point to then access the more spread out nature of Lemmy for instance. But then again, it's vulnerable instead.. not sure what I prefer to be hontest.
I'm probably too new to the fediverse to have an educated opinion yet!
It has excellent potential. It has only been around about a month and has quickly received a lot of interest and, from what I've read, there has been a surge in code contributions. I think it will be the preferred platform alt-Reddit platform once Kbin resolves its more significant issues and starts adding some QoL features.
@nlm @Barbarian Yes, me and @sj_zero have been having lots of trouble getting #Kbin to federate properly
Hi from kbin!
I'm considering migrating when that happens, as then I have no need for Mastodon, I can just have everything on one site...
Same. I'm trying to decide what I like more.
Part of me thinks I'd prefer to have two seperate accounts - one here, one on Mastodon.
The thing is, I just really prefer the tree view of Lemmy/Kbin...
I feel the same.
I do like the microblogging platform for dumb chatter and quck updates (like new music coming out, for example). But in general, I much prefer threaded comment trees.
Feel free to join https://readit.buzz - we're federating and running KBIN. I run universeodon.com too.
I wonder if you can turn off the mastodon part because I don't want or need it. But the magazines on kbin are really cool.
@Barbarian so that's why I couldn't follow anything there.
Indeed, it will be interesting to see what will happen.
So KBin isn’t Lemmy? But it federated with Lemmy? Also, I see Mastodon federated with Lemmy, but what’s the point of that?
It's just another UI basically. I like Kbin a lot more than Lemmy aesthetically and it was easier to get used coming directly from Reddit. Also early on there was only one instance (there's like 3-5 now? I'm on Kbin.run) so it was a lot easier for people who didn't understand how it works to use.
@solberg @Barbarian It's more of you can message someone from somewhere else. Think of it like a mobile network, mastodon is t-mobile, kbin at&t and lemmy sprint ... you can talk to anyone you want but pay your bill in one place. Same with the fedi you have one home but can talk to anyone who federates with you or speaks your language ... in this case ActivityPub
Is it kind of like KBin, Lemmy, and Mastodon are the frontends to ActivityPub which is the backend? But I wouldn’t be able to sign into “Mastodon” with my Lemmy account or vice versa, right?
Close enough :)
Kbin and lemmy are compatible but different projects
Mastodon users who want to stay on mastodon can subscribe to communities on lemmy and see each post as a tweet in mastodon
and by subscribe I mean follow the community which shows up as a user account
around 25k on kbin.social I believe, although a lot of them will be duplicates on lemmy and kbin