I can’t tell you how much of a breath of fresh air it is after ditching Reddit for Lemmy. In my several days of being here, I have only seen ONE asshole! Versus seeing multiple assholes on Reddit! Crazy right?
But seriously, I used Reddit since 2014. I tried using it for therapeutic conversations sometimes. Like going on r/Offmychest or r/Confessions. As I’ve dealt with a lot of trauma in my own life, done some bad things I’m not proud of and needed to get them out…over on Reddit, I was constantly judged. Even if I showed fucking remorse over my actions and made it clear I’m not proud of what I did, 10 years ago for example. And I’d get called a dipshit and an asshole and I need therapy. (Not that I can afford it) It was never genuine, heart to heart conversation. Now after being here on Lemmy and seeing how many kind and amazing people there are, it’s actually starting to encourage me to try again. Maybe I can actually have one on one honest conversations without being called a horrible person despite me showing remorse. That being said, if anyone could point me in the right direction to an offmychest or Confessions community, or instance, I’d appreciate it.
I guess bottom line, you guys are great. The majority at least. It’s such a breath of fresh air from the toxicity and ridicule of Reddit and I greatly appreciate it. Thanks guys, and keep…Lemmying?
(That’s totally a word!)
Im still figuring this out, what is the difference between lemmy and kbin? Im currently using kbin but this post is on lemmy?
In Layman’s terms (cause that’s all I can understand myself lol): If you have grasped the difference between different Lemmy instances at least, think of kbin like just another one, except it’s running a different software than the standard lemmy instances do, but still works on the same protocols so things can still communicate inter-instance.
Least I think that’s the best way to describe it lol
kbin.social and lemmy.world are federated with each other, meaning you see content across both.
Ah awesome, thank you! So you only need an account on one?
@levochemist
It’s kinda like how you can use your Google account on tons of websites.
Your account exists in only one place, but you can use it everywhere on content that is “Federated”
Only instead of you logging onto those websites to see the content, the content comes to you.
So a bunch of these federated sites (instances) use the same protocol (ActivityPub) therefore they can talk to each other. Kind of like email can talk to other email servers using the same protocols (e.g. SMTP).
Mastodon (Twitter Clone) is the largest off all the federated social media software.
Lemmy (Reddit Clone) federates with other Lemmy instances + Kbin instances.
Kbin (Reddit + Twitter Clone) can talk to Lemmy instances via Magazines/Threads and Mastodon instances via Microblogs.
Mastodon is like Twitter. Lemmy is like Reddit. And they both live on the ActivityPub network.
Kbin also lives on ActivityPub. But it has separate Lemmy-style and Mastodon-style areas in its UI.
If you want microblogging and communities, and you want them all in one place, you might like kbin better. If you don’t, you might be fine with Lemmy. But since they’re federated, you should be able to access most of the content from either side.
They’re basically different front ends for accessing the same Fediverse Threads (“Threads” being these Reddit-like posts)
Think of it like cars. My Ford can drive on the same roads as your BMW because they’re both fundamentally still cars, with all the same lights, brakes, etc.
Any Fediverse instance should be compatible with any other of the same type (aka. Threads, Microposts, etc.)
The only other difference is Kbin has separate support for Fediverse Microposting, which means it can federate with Mastodon as well as Lemmy.
Yeah, so I’m on sh.itjust.works but i see your comment and the lemmy.world post from my own instance. Basically each instance has a copy of what everyone else is doing, and can interact between each other as long as they’re “federated”