Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.
Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?
Im sorry for the stupid question but can someone explain the difference between lemmy and Kbin?
I just recently created a kbin account and downloaded the kbin app but see a lot about lemmy on here. Is kbin a subset of lemmy? If I want a wider variety of content would I go to lemmy or kbin?
Again, sorry for the stupid question.
Not a stupid question at all!
Lemmy and Kbin are two different systems that talk to each other. Like how Gmail and Outlook are two different systems, but you can still send emails between them.
So you can make posts over there on Kbin and I can upvote them from over here on Lemmy.
Make sense?
Just from what I understand myself, it’s that they are two different software setups. But they both use the ActivityPub standard that all federated content is using. KBin is different though in that it’s trying to be more like Twitter with Sub Reddits, than like Reddit with Tweeting. And Lemmy is just purely trying to recreate the Reddit experience. So like on Twitter, Mastadon, and KBin upvote is more of a like and people can see what accounts “like.” KBin and Mastadon share the same ‘microblogging’ feature which is like twitter. From what I understand they share microblogs across the fediverse.
And Lemmy and Kbin share communities/magazines together thanks to federation. So you’re on a magazine in KBin but I’m on Lemmy on Lemmy World looking at this community from Lemmy.ml interacting with you.
Overall I think if you like Twitter and Reddit and are fine with your entire history of actions being public KBin is perfect. If you just want a Twitter experience, Mastadon. If you want some more obscurity with your account like Reddit and only the Reddit experience, Lemmy.
Right now I think KBin’s feature parity isn’t too far off from Mastadon and Lemmy. But like the rule of any thing that combines two tools, it can’t be better than both separately. I think as Lemmy and Mastadon matures into their niches KBin will almost exclusively be playing catch up with both in the long term.
Most Lemmy instances and kbin are connected/federated to each other meaning that the content is available to both. For example, the thread you currently are replying to is on the Lemmy.ml instance. So in general you don’t need to worry if the content is on a Lemmy instance or on kbin. You will see it anyway. So you can just pick the instance you like the UI best and use that.
There is a small caveat, in that a magazine/community will only start federating/being visible on a remote instance after someone visits that community for the first time. E.g if someone creates a new community on kbin, then it is only visible on kbin until someone goes to newcommunity@kbin.social on their instance. And also other way around. If someone makes a new community on Lemmy.world you won’t see it on kbin until you it someone else goes to newcommunity@lemmy.world on kbin.
@Mirror_I_rorrIMG kbin and lemmy are two different clients (imagine Outlook or Apple Mail) for the same service (the threadiverse, or email in the prior example). Pick one, they federate with each other (cross-pollinate).
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Hmmmm so I see that you pinged me in this post, but I didn’t get a notification for it. Wonder how that works.
Unfortunately from what I’ve seen, that doesn’t actually result in a notification
Pretty sure you need the server name in the ping for it to work. Kinda like email, lol.
Ohh that makes sense. Thank you for explaining.
You got some fairly techy responses to this question but just from an actually-using-things pov:
Yes they’re different softwares, yes they can talk to each other (mostly) fine. On Kbin your topic-focused discussion groups are “magazines” and over here on Lemmy we call them “communities”. I can sub to Kbin magazines from here on Lemmy, and you can sub to Lemmy communities too! So it’s functionally a shared pool of content and discussion, even though technically it’s two different platforms :)
There’s a really useful tool for browsing Lemmy communities by keyword here: lemmyverse.net/communities that you may or may not find easier than searching through the Kbin magazine list.