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0xtero, (edited ) in What is Kbin’s identity?

For consistency,

Threads should be renamed to "Articles"
Microblog should be renamed to "Posts".

As for Kbin identity - well.. I guess it's a "user interface to fediverse".

Fediverse, in turn, is a sprawling network that publishes and makes different types of ActivityPub objects available to users.

Kbin has tools to work and interact with some of those object types.

exscape,
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Aren't threads and articles separate concepts on Kbin though? I agree that it's confusing however, and perhaps should be simplified.

My understanding that an article is closer to a reddit text post, while the others (link, photo, video) are all what reddit considers "links".

So articles are threads, but so are links, photos and videos. To be clear, that's my understanding, not fact.

zebus,
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You’ve got a good point, someone should make a userscript to rename the buttons lol

Rhiannax3,
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That would confuse me even more to be honest. A submission that people discuss and reply to is not what I would think of as an article - to me, that would be more like a standalone publication.

I do feel like using different terminology could help in understanding how this all fits together though.

wjrii, in What is Kbin’s identity?
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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, in What is Kbin’s identity?

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

inkican, in What is Kbin’s identity?

Kbin identifies as 'Not Reddit' and that's good enough for me.

hightrix,

Reddit but not run by donkeys, is how I’ve been explaining it.

FlowVoid, 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, in How do you get up and going on kbin?
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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, 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, in How do you get up and going on kbin?
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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, in How do you get up and going on kbin?
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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, 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.
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That's because it's an Article type and there is no redirection happening. I have it in the issues, it will be fixed.

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