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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many on Lemmy alone ? BTW what's kbin? Is it like another instance?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Kbin is completely different from Lemmy, in that it is not Lemmy. It's like a mix of Mastodon and Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And are we using/seeing/editing kbin content from our Lemmy instances? Or it's isolated from us? (Like Reddit)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Kbin and Lemmy federate with each other. In fact, I’m talking to you from a kbin instance right now!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This will be weird when different people will start using the same username in different instances.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could we run a kbin instance as well, sameway we do with Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, there are more than one instance of kbin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But for example, on kbin I am on kbin.social/m/technology. That's not the same as lemmy.world/c/technology right? When I search for common subs it doesn't show me the subs from the other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Never mind. I just found out how to find federated instances on Kbin. It only defaults to local instances and I can't seem to make it show federated instances by default. It's a shame because I like its UI more than Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, they are fully interoperable - the power of ActivityPub!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They're not isolated. They are also part of the Fediverse. I regularly see many people posting and commenting from Kbin on Lemmy instances.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes it's also federated, so you can access their instances and communities pretty much like the Lemmy ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You are reading a post from kbin right now, typed from my phone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But kbin and lemmy can federate with each other (that sounds strange) so it's not a competition.