I see kbin.social mentioned here and there where lemmy is discussed. How are those two related? Are they linked up, or are those completely separate communities?
They both operate on the same protocol called ActivityPub. So that mean it is possible for Lemmy users to interact with Kbin communities (or magazines, as they call them) and for Kbin users to interact with our communities.
Technically it’s also possible for Mastodon (since that also uses ActivityPub) user’s to reply to posts here… It’s not very user friendly, but it is possible.
Thanks for explaining. So there’s no content being missed out on by joining just kbin or Lemmy right? Just a different interface and different “local” instance?
That’s correct!
I don’t think there is federation between mastodon and lemmy, or at least that’s what I’ve read multiple times in here.
But you can’t actually post new posts on Mastodon?
Can you on Kbin?
I don’t know where I found it, but I did find one thread by person that experimenting with posting from Mastodon to Lemmy.
Interesting. If you happen to find it again, I’d love to see it.
I just tried it out on one of my posts on @memes@lemmy.ml using my own Mastodon account @ mastodon.online.
So: This is the thread plus the reply on the within Lemmy: https://feddit.nl/comment/64732 and this is the response on the Mastodon side of things: https://mastodon.online/users/SuitedUpDev/statuses/110533351473236807
Yeah I found that replying from Mastodon works. But creating a brand new post within a community from Mastodon, doesn’t seem to work from what I saw.
Hello from a kbin instance
Reply from lemmy.world
Hello from fedia.io, a kbin instance
hello, how is there? I heard kbin.social uses cloudflare and limiting federation because high load causing errors and even my instance at lemmy.world also not responsive albeit still usable rn. how is the load and responsiveness on fedia.io? just courious.
Fedia.io is good. So is infosec.pub if you prefer Lemmy over Kbin. I’m mostly using infosec.pub right now :)
I’ll wait and see, I’m ok here, my admin constantly upgrading the server to cope with influx of new users. It is fast and snappy rn. I’m thinking to host my personal instance myself though in near future, as it is my preference on how to interact with fediverse… :)
Fedia’s cool. Admin’s working hard to solve some issues since it’s a new instance but overall good and responsive.
glad to hear that. I hope the kbin flagship instance problem get fixed soon because there are many community from reddit that migrate there. Can’t wait to join them again once they federate with the rest of fediverse… :)
Hello from Lemmy!
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Hi there from a lemmy Instance
Am I able to subscribe to kbin magazines from Lemmy, or is it only the other way around? I try searching for them as !magazine@kbin.server and nothing ever comes up but that might just be because it’s slow to federate.
Is the magazine on kbin.social? They have CF stuff turned on.
If I search !tech@kbin.social from my Lemmy instance I can’t find anything. So it seems like kbin users can interact with Lemmy but Lemmy users can’t interact with kbin.
It’s kbin.social’s issue. I’m on another kbin instance and can’t find them either. Maybe wait for them to turn off CF and try later.
It’s just another instance, but one that supports microblogging and some slightly different features. The fediverse is made out of instances.
Instances mainly affect where your data is physically stored (every instance has their own server) and what content moderators of your instance have decided to block (for example, they could decide to block content from a neo-nazi instance). You would still have access to all content from pretty much all other instances.
Other examples of Lemmy instances are beehaw.org, lemmy.blahaj.zone, lemmy.ml, sh.itjust.works, etc. You have a more exhaustive list at https://join-lemmy.org/instances
