Fedi.Tips (@feditips@mstdn.social)
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Content warning: Please don't use Lemmy :( Human rights, oppression

I’m a bit confused with my options here. I am looking at Reddit alternatives and see a lot of people flocking to lemmy but it seemed like kbin was the more centrist option?

Apparently lemmy was set up by a tankie and has some CCP propaganda and other problematic background?

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379

I have accounts with both and definitely seems like kbin is struggling compared to lemmy but that could just be because lemmy is better established? What are people’s thoughts?

  • notmyredditusernameOP
    2·
    2 years ago

    Thanks this does make sense obviously and you seem to know what your talking about so I’ll ask this:

    Am I right that searching for a kbin community/magazine on Lemmy, or vice versa, will only pull in new posts on that community as well?

    For example I just searched for the home assistant community on kbin and found nothing local, so it pulled up the lemmy home assistant community, “great!” I thought, but when I go to look at the posts it shows a number of posts,but not the actual posts, instead directing me to go to the original source to view old posts. In that instance then I am taken directly to lemmy from kbin and can’t post using my kbin account. This seems like a bit of a limitation of the federated community if you want to take part in historical/existing threads on another server.

    • myk@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      The kbin server is massively overloaded right now so things like federation of messages are badly impacted. But once that is over you should see the the same content in a group no matter where you follow it from.

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      On top of every community being massively overloaded right now as myk said, kbin had to set up an attack protection, temporarily, because the servers couldn’t hold the load.

      It’s probably not a real attack, just immense load, but in any case, all that seriously disrupts the communication between the 2 platforms.

      Nothing is working as intended right now, we have to wait a few weeks probably, until the reddit influx slows down and things go back to normal, before we can truly see how the federation is supposed to work.