Hi there -

I’m trying to dive into the fediverse and am debating kbin vs lemmy instances. My question is on how people approach dealing with with communities /magazines that share names, subject matter between the various instances.

For example - the “Fediverse” magazine in kbin.social is not the same as the “Fediverse” community in lemmy.world (they obviously have different namespaces) but the content is often similar and the subject matter is pretty much the same. (I imagine other implementations will have their own flavours too.)

As a user, how do you decide which is the optimal one to follow? Do you subscribe to each? Can you cross post between them? Could/would the magazines/communities eventually merge?

I get that everything is federated and things will congeal to have some being more dominant (or not) over time, but coming from a reddit world, it’s definitely a bit more daunting. This is ok. Change is good - just looking at how people tend to approach this.

Do you have accounts at multiple servers? Do you pick one and subscribe from all over?

Interested in hearing how you tackle it.

Cheers!

  • @[email protected]
    1•1 year ago

    I just subscribed to a kbin magazine from Lemmy, yay!

    I tried joining @[email protected] from my login instance at lemm.ee so I navigated to https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected] from the address bar and selected subscribe. Then I subscribed to another Kbin magazine by searching communities. Very cool.

    Lemmy’s canonical names are not working right 0.17.4 (the ones starting with an exclamation point). I think that’s fixed in 0.18.0 so that will make things easier especially if it can recognize Kbin canonical names.

    I’m not sure how well Kbin is picking up Lemmy communities but I see Kbin users in posts here so it must be working. In any case you can get the content on either platform so just use the one you like better.