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DarkThoughts, 2 years ago in What is Kbin’s identity?

It's a decentralized link aggregator in the design of Reddit with federation support for Lemmy & Mastodon content.
I use kbin because it's simply easier to use and more familiar for me as a Reddit user. Lemmy's layout is just confusing to me and I don't like the extremistic ideology of the admins.

acedelgado, 2 years ago in What is Kbin’s identity?

Kbin seems to be pretty ambitious in that it's aiming at being a hub for (almost) all of the fediverse. So Lemmy's reddit-like forums, mastodon's quick posts a la Twitter, and peertube's youtube - style services - it's looking to bring all of those fediverse platforms so they're all accessible in one place rather than having to sign up for each. That way it's an easy place to go to for your decentralized social media content. So really it's just looking to make the fediverse more easily accessible and improve the user's experience.

It's a pretty big idea and it's pretty damn impressive what Ernest accomplished before this big fediverse boom. I'm excited to see where it goes.

wjrii, 2 years ago in What is Kbin’s identity?

At the most barebones level, I think kbin was meant to be "Lemmy and mastodon with a cohesive UI on one account." So far it has ended up being, "Lemmy but for people who were eeshy about tankies when they were trying to figure all this out to get away from Reddit."

sik0fewl, 2 years ago in What is Kbin’s identity?

I agree the terminology, etc, is confusing. I do hope it gets revamped a bit.

FlowVoid, 2 years ago in What is Kbin’s identity?

If set up properly, Mastodon can pull in Lemmy and Kbin posts and comments. What is Mastodon trying to be?

The answer in both cases: it depends on how you set them up.

adonis, 2 years ago in How do you get up and going on kbin?

You don't need an account on each platform... here on kbin you can subscribe to kbin AND lemmy communities, and interact with them.

you'd go to the search bar, then magazines and then search for the communities you like, and subscribe to them.

NotAPenguin, 2 years ago in How do you get up and going on kbin?

I'm not sure what you mean?

you just use it like you do lemmy?

Infernal_pizza, 2 years ago in How do you get up and going on kbin?

Kbin and Lemmy are now federating so you can subscribe to all the same communities on both accounts! (I’m posting this from Lemmy)

HeartyBeast, 2 years ago in How do you get up and going on kbin?

Without knowing what you mean by "I can't seem to find my groove there" it's difficult to comment really - what's the problem - not finding active communities? People not replying to you?

ernest, 2 years ago in Why does Kbin show posts from Lemmy instances with a source of kbin.social? The post in this image is from reddit@lemmy.ml, but it says kbin.social in the parentheses.

That's because it's an Article type and there is no redirection happening. I have it in the issues, it will be fixed.