I made an account on Kbin, and I’m looking at posts from Lemmy and BeeHaw and Kbin and sometimes I forget to even check what the source is.

So am I accessing Lemmy through Kbin? Am I seeing the entire Fediverse through Kbin’s interface? Am I reading Kbin, which gets its content from across the Fediverse?

In short, I’m wondering what the local terminology is for what I signed up for and what I’m seeing when I pull up Kbin.

#fediverse

  • chamim@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m still new to the fediverse, so please take what I say with a pinch of salt, but when you create an account on the fediverse, you can access all the federated instances. Which is why you’re seeing content from both kbin and lemmy instances.

  • mcmxci
    1·
    1 year ago

    BeeHaw is Lemmy, BeeHaw is just a specific instance like lemmy.ml. lemmy and kbin are ‘group’ based federated apps. Lemmy has ‘communities’ and kbin has ‘magazines’. You can view lemmy communities as kbin magazines and vice versa.

    I would say magazines and communities are the same but kbin magazines have an additional ‘microblog’ feature incompatible with lemmy.

    Kbin is also more compatible with user based federated apps like mastodon due to the ‘microblog’ functionality. You can follow mastodon users from kbin which I don’t think you can do from lemmy.

    You can follow lemmy threads from mastodon, but it can be difficult to navigate in my experience. > So am I accessing Lemmy through Kbin? Am I seeing the entire Fediverse through Kbin’s interface?

    So am I accessing Lemmy through Kbin? Am I seeing the entire Fediverse through Kbin’s interface?

    Yes and yes

    Am I reading Kbin, which gets its content from across the Fediverse?

    Not really. kbin content is from kbin. You can read lemmy and mastodon content from kbin.