• ragincloo@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’m a bit confused, started using Lemmy earlier this month, made an account so I can subscribe to communities that interest me, still figuring it out a bit. What is kbin? Thanks!

      • DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social
        6·
        1 year ago

        Kbin is another federated instance on the verse just like Lemmy, it just has a different UI. I’m browsing this thread and commenting through kbin right now, we can all interact with the same posts :)

        • hemmes@vlemmy.net
          3·
          1 year ago

          I’m on VLemmy! 👋

          Another way to look at it is like different flavors or the same operating systems like Linux with kde vs gnome. Or if you’re not a computer buff, Windows 10 or Windows 11. More or less…

          • AineLasagna@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            My favorite analogy is email- it doesn’t matter if you have @gmail, @outlook, or even disgusting ones like @yahoo or @hotmail, you can send and receive emails using the same protocols between any of them.

      • ivanafterall@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        kbin.social is like lemmy.world, etc… It’s another instance (though maybe/probably there are other technical differences I don’t understand). I am speaking to you from kbin right now. It’s magic, you see.

      • LennethAegis@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        Kbin is a separate application that is like lemmy and they can communicate with each other, as in view each other’s content.

      • sab@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        Think about email in comparison to for example Facebook. On Facebook, the content and the platform are to sides of the same coin: the two cannot be separated. In email, on the other hand, the two are separate: the content (emails) is separate from the provider (Google, Protonmail, or some old laptop with an internet connection functioning as a server). Emails can be sent between the different platforms, as it is based on a protocol that exists independently of the providers.

        Lemmy is the same way. In the example above, Lemmy is a piece of software you could install on your old laptop (or other people can install on hopefully more sophisticated servers) in order to communicate with other services. That’s why Lemmy can be found on multiple websites (lemmy.world or beehaw.org, among others). Just like in email however, the protocol is separate: the protocol Lemmy runs on is called ActivityPub, and works with not only Lemmy, but also other software. Mastodon is the most famous; kbin is another.

        Like Lemmy, kbin is a client for ActivityPub that is made to function a lot like Reddit. It is developed completely separately, but according to similar logics: I saw your message in kbin and am responding to it from there, and when I upvoted your post you recieved an upvote in your Lemmy. It’s similar to if you are using Outlook and I am using Gmail: I can still send you an email and communicate effortlessly across the two services.

        The difference between kbin and Lemmy is mostly in user experience. Both projects are work in progress, development is happening fast, and they have both seen an explosion in the number of users the last few days. Content spreads between both freely, so the choice between them is really mostly about user interface preferences. It will be fun to see how both projects develop.

      • lixus98@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        You are participating on a kbin thread right now, kbin is basically another lemmy but because they speak the same language we can communicate.

      • VeeSilverball@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        If you look at the links by each post, you’ll notice that some will reference a URL that goes off of your local instance. In Lemmy these are icons, in kbin it appears from the “more” link. Sometimes it’s unclear who/where I’m interacting with and examining the URL helps me get some idea of it. In federated social media different instances often develop a different subculture, but since they can access each other you have more dimensions of interaction and how to behave.

    • Child Eater@iusearchlinux.fyi
      1·
      1 year ago

      Not OP but what’s the proper way to link another community, like r/NAME on reddit…?

      I see people in these replies using @ but I think some people use !

      • lixus98@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Seems to be a bug with Lemmy, if you click the sub button multiple times it should eventually subscribe

  • Singletona@kbin.social
    17·
    1 year ago

    Hi. Welcome to kbin. There is a bit of a learning curve. There is a bit of jank, but to be honest? You made the right call.

  • stephfinitely@kbin.social
    17·
    1 year ago

    What’s Reddit? /jk but Kbin is so nice. I am actually having conversations with people instead of just post that seem to exist in a weird void.

    • ShellSurf@kbin.social
      18·
      1 year ago

      I’m not quite having conversations, but I’m posting comments on the internet for the first time in years.

      • astrsk@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        Same boat! The last 5 years of my Reddit usage was 100% anonymous, sign out out of any account using the Apollo app. But when I joined the fediverse, something about it got me back into the swing of posting and voting.

      • midnight
        2·
        1 year ago

        Same thing here. It’s also bled over to Mastodon for me and it’s been quite an enjoyable experience.

    • Mystical@kbin.social
      10·
      1 year ago

      I really like the UI kbin has. Don’t have to worry about old.reddit being removed one day either.

      • kestrel7@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        Right? I liked reddit, but old.reddit was imperfect at best, and needed RES. New reddit was always an unusable hot mess. Kbin is like three weeks old and it’s already better than both ever were.

  • Kichae@kbin.social
    13·
    1 year ago

    * Waves vigorously *

    Try not to get overwhelmed by things here. There’s an added layer of complexity that exists, due to the space being made up of a whole bunch of different websites, but you’ll grok it in time if you just absorb things slowly.

    Things are still new around here. kbin itself is still in early beta. There are kinks to work out. But everything’s in active development, and things will get polished :)

  • razorwiregoatlick@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    I moved over a little more than a week ago and honestly the improvements here have already come a long way. I am really enjoying it and have zero issue fully replacing Reddit with the Fediverse.

  • artisanrox@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    Here’s a fake award for your post since I’m not buying fake awards from The Flaming Alien anymore 🏆

  • SuaveBet@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    For me, Lemmy is the girl in blue. But I prefer browsing Lemmy communities through kbin. So I’m still loyal.

  • gk99@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Who’s downvoting this lol

    Like it’s getting hard ratio’d because it’s a good meme, but I’m curious as to why 13 people (so far?) are upset about it.

      • NEKRONIUM@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m a Lemmy user and I’m okay with Kbin getting the majority of users, as long as we’re able to federate with each other it doesn’t really matter where the new people go

      • gk99@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Imagine complaining about which interface people choose to interact with the same content pool with. That’s like the main reason the fediverse has exploded in popularity over these last few weeks. Sheesh.