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DarkThoughts, 1 year 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, 1 year 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.

0xtero, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) 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, 1 year ago

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, 1 year ago

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

Rhiannax3, 1 year ago

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, 1 year 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, 1 year ago in What is Kbin’s identity?

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

FlowVoid, 1 year 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, 1 year 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, 1 year 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, 1 year 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, 1 year 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?