I’m not sure if Lemmy, kbin, or something else will work out to be the community favorite, so I’m trying out both and would encourage others to do the same.
Normally, you can participate in a Lemmy community from kbin and the other way around, but kbin.social has been dealing with a DDoS attack or some such, and its mitigation measures are making that unreliable at the moment.
I’m trying out both and would encourage others to do the same
I’m somewhat of a Luddite re: social networks, was planning to stick with Lemmy which seems to be working great, at least from my limited POV and use. Would rather not open another account on kbin or wherever unless the flashlight community makes it their preferred place.
If that is what end up happening, would you please be so kind as to let us know here?
It seems like Lemmy is winning so far, but that’s partly because the biggest kbin server is dealing with a DDoS attack in combination with an influx of users.
Under normal circumstances, it’s actually possible to participate in both communities with just one account, but right now kbin.social is not working correctly due to the DDoS defenses it has been forced to put up.
Okay, Since it’s not federated here I’ll have to make an account on that instance.
/m/flashlight should federate with Lemmy, but you’ll generally get the best UX when you’re using the same software.
There were federation problems with both kbin.social and lemmy.world during the initial massive influx of Reddit users. Both seem to have resolved the major issues.
Trying out both… Nothing wrong with trying out things, but (coming from deddit) this is my problem with the fediverse. You can easily end up with two or more flashlight communities that have a lot of the posts in common, as the content creators may make the effort to post in multiple communities, but many commenters wont do that so each replicated post will have its own comment stream. Hopefully, things will get better once the federation between lemmy and kbin works as intended. At the moment, i can see the kbin posts, but cant vote or comment, or subscribe it seems
