Lately I often read about kbin.social being similar to lemmy but more accessible. So I created an account there to check it out. My experience so far is a little mixed. From kbin I can access all Lemmy posts, although I find the interface less intuitive to join new communities. So from the kbin side it feels like an other Lemmy instance.

But when searching for kbin from this Lemmy Account, I do not find much. I feel like I am missing some basic concept, that makes it pretty clear. Why this is such a one way experience.

So now I am wondering: How does this work, what are the difference, what do both sites have in common?

  • henry@kbin.social
    7·
    2 years ago

    there is a bit of learning curve.

    I found a couple of things :

    • if you go to your preferences, you can get a more famililar reddit look and feel, by adding the top bar, and a few other tweaks.
    • i think that ultimately it wont (shouldn’t) matter what ‘window’ you look through into the fediverse - correct me if i’m wrong. I like kbin a lot, but i’, looking at beehaw. i was asked not to join lemmy.ml because of server load issues.
    • i’m not sure how mastodon fits. i guess that’s a federated app - but is seems entirely seperate.
    • cnnrduncan@beehaw.org
      7·
      2 years ago

      Mastodon is kinda similar to Lemmy but replaces Twitter rather than Reddit. They both use they same underlying technology though which is why kbin can talk to both!

    • التنينوكس@social.touha.me
      5·
      2 years ago

      @henry @YoTcA the way each application handles federation is a bit different. Sure, you have the same content, buy it would be presented differently. Depending on the application goal, the presentation is more tailored to a particular way of interaction and content.