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?
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?
In terms of fear of missing out on content, your safer bet is Lemmy. It has 10x the user-count and 100x the comment count according to https://the-federation.info/platform/73 and https://the-federation.info/platform/184.
You SHOULD be able to cross subscribe (to kbin magazines from Lemmy accounts and to Lemmy communities from kbin accounts), though I’m the last day or two I’ve heard trouble from Lemmy users trying to subscribe to kbin magazines. I expect that will blow over soon enough cross-subscription will work on again. But most of the action I’ve seen is in Lemmy communities. The main active kbin communities have been for “frontpage” topics like tech and news which are already well covered on Lemmy.