kbin is part of the federation - like Lemmy - but it is coded differently and has a different developer. Since it is part of the federation, though, Lemmy users can subscribe to kbin communities (called magazines) and vice versa. kbin has threads like Lemmy, but it also has a micro blogging option similar to Twitter/Mastodon.
It’s bugging out right now, probably because of the massive amount of traffic, but once things calm down you should be able to search for a magazine by full URL (https://kbin.social/m/gaming, for example) in communities, switch all search settings to “All”, wait for your instance to pull in the magazine and click through to the federated URL (should look like https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected], assuming you’re on lemmy.world)
Basically, just like adding a community nobody else on your instance has added before.
kbin is part of the federation - like Lemmy - but it is coded differently and has a different developer. Since it is part of the federation, though, Lemmy users can subscribe to kbin communities (called magazines) and vice versa. kbin has threads like Lemmy, but it also has a micro blogging option similar to Twitter/Mastodon.
Oooohhhh okay so it’s not Lemmy but they’re in the same family and can talk to each other in a way?
How does one do that?
I arrived here looking for the answer to exactly this. So, that’s a score for using Lemmy to solve problems like I use Reddit to.
Except the native search function actually worked.
It’s bugging out right now, probably because of the massive amount of traffic, but once things calm down you should be able to search for a magazine by full URL (https://kbin.social/m/gaming, for example) in communities, switch all search settings to “All”, wait for your instance to pull in the magazine and click through to the federated URL (should look like https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected], assuming you’re on lemmy.world)
Basically, just like adding a community nobody else on your instance has added before.
If they use the same protocol, can KBin readers browse Lemmy communities?
They can and do. Seen quite a few Kbin users wandering around here.