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I've seen people say that you can access kbin from Lemmy and vice versa. I can't seem to do it in browser or with Jerboa. I can't find an actual answer either.

Edit: I even noticed kbin.social is a linked instance.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Yep! I've had issue direct searching for kbin communities here and communities from here on kbin though. I think that kbin federates very slowly.

Examples:

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I encourage individual people to try out Kbin if they like the design or project better or whatever, but Lemmy was the only choice for me to host a community like [email protected] on, and I encourage other community mods to use Lemmy as well. Community federation and community moderation in general is simply far more mature on Lemmy at the moment. I’m very glad that I can host a community on Lemmy and Kbin users can still access it though :)

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

Hm, so you're saying that for an individual who wants to self-host a single-user instance and interact with everyone else over activity-pub (e.g. post on lemmy communities and reply to mastodon toots), kbin may be a good choice?

It does seem to me that the multiple types of published events (threads / microblogging ) might allow someone to interact easily with both mastodon and lemmy in a near-native format, but I haven't tried using it like that.

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

I’d personally still prefer to self-host Lemmy over Kbin for various reasons (primarily because Kbin is PHP, ew), but feature-wise I would say Kbin is roughly the same as Lemmy for just browsing/interacting as a user, yes. Perhaps better for interacting with Mastodon even, but I haven’t checked out Kbin’s microblogging area enough to give an opinion on it one way or the other.

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

It seems to be kind of hit and miss. I tried getting [email protected] into lemmy yesterday. It kind of worked on lemmy.ml but only showed older posts. On lemmy.world it didn't work at all, and still doesn't.

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

Yeah, that's the biggest thing that turned me away from using kbin. It almost seems like it wants the community/posts from its instance to be the de facto ones. /tin foil hat

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

I mean. Even when I take off my tinfoil hat, kbin is very immature software made by a single guy, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if he spent a lot of time polishing pulling content in, and very little time on pushing out.

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

Awesome! Hopefully the increased attention will help smooth these things out.

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

You're supposed to be able to type !community@instance but that didn't work for me. Instead, I had to go to my browser and paste the whole url (ex. Https://kbin.social/m/apple) into the search bar and then Lemmy was able to find it. It does take a while to sync though.