The thing is, this is a third party app. The platform we're on is the Fediverse, it's just third party apps. No, they don't provide the same thread-like experience that you get on kbin, but for now, there's not much a difference in simply browsing kbin instances from Mastodon apps or the similar. This isn't currently great for kbin.social with all the troubles federating, but explore your options!
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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the fedivers will never be able to ban 3rd party apps - because everything is build on apis that are open. thats the true beauty.
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kbin doesn't need a third party app because the website works great, and unlike reddit, isnt filled to the brim with ads and trackers
tl;dr — fediverse will only improve from today, while Reddit will only decline.
I've used a third party app (Relay) for browsing Reddit for eight years now. It's what I'm used to, and interacting with the same content in a lesser format feels bad.
I've been using Kbin for eight days, and only know it from the mobile browser. Is it as pleasant to interact with as Relay was? No. But the difference is that it will only improve from here. My Reddit experience is primed only to get worse.
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Um I don't really understand that thought. Is there an official Lemmy app? What do you think "third party app" means? Posted from Jerboa for Lemmy..
Jerboa is made by the Lemmy developers so it's as close as you can get to an official app
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If you think about it in a different sense...every instance is a 3rd party app
Mind blown!!
P.s. - first comment in the fediverse...(I don't like that word)...in the Federation!!!!
Jerboa on Android works pretty well! I'm posting from it right now 😁
kbin works with Jerboa?
It was definitely a portion of the move; more like "straw that broke the camel's back."
This! Also I'm 110% sure that there will be a lot of cool 3rd party apps for the fediverse.
for ios there is mlem and memmy on testflight. lots of people are working on cool projects on github
Browsing on memmy right now, it’s pretty cool. Mlem was unstable for me, waiting on an update.
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Kbin have PWA tho
I'm not having a go or anything. I'm loving this whole transition period. I do miss my boost app though! Does jerboa connect to kbin? or just lemmy? I should go find that out for myself. brb. Also realise that others are most likely being worked on.
I read it and post from jebroa. At least latest alpha can do it.
Just lemmy, far as I know. There's one in development called Kmoon, but I can't currently pull up a link and it's still in development anyway. I do really miss Boost, though. The tagging system was both fun and useful, and color-coding the threads made them SO much easier to follow if I had to scroll back up for something right quick
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You could argue that it's third party apps all the way down.
100% this. Don't like the UI on your current server? There's lots of federated options that all look and feel different and still give you access to the same content.
Unlike Reddit, there is no barrier to creating third party apps for this. Many of the problems that are softened by third party apps on Reddit, can be solved in the fediverse by communities and users setting up their own instances (with their own policies and customizations).