Kbin.social turning federation back on "soon"
/kbin - a few quick announcements - /kbin meta - kbin.social
It looks like kbin.social is in the final stages of migrating their site, and merging a whole bunch of improvements. Having their ~5k users federating with us again will be nice
kbin seems rather promising.
Haven't really played around with it much since the federation part wasn't working. Anyone been using it more and care to chime in with their experiences compared to Lemmy?
They're called toots in Mastodon and yeah, I'm not really a fan either. Which is why I'm on the Lemmy side.
I also use Mastodon, but it's just a very different format to posts on Lemmy.
How long has federation not been working? I've only been here a few days.
Yeah, I saw that. Just thinking general usage when everything's working as intended.
Their UI looks nice at least and it seems to have quite a few users.
I haven't really used it, so this is all second-hand:
As far as I understand, it's a younger project with more papercuts than Lemmy, but more features. Instead of just being a link aggregator like Reddit/Lemmy, it's also got microblog functionality so it plays better with Mastodon. For users of Mastodon, having a one-stop-shop for both services is pretty handy.
It's much harder and more problematic to set up kbin instances, so almost everyone just uses kbin.social. This means it's a very centralized fediverse platform compared to Lemmy, but that might be seen as an advantage to some.
Yeah, I can see how that centralization could be both a positive and a negative. Sounds kind of nice to have a central point to then access the more spread out nature of Lemmy for instance. But then again, it's vulnerable instead.. not sure what I prefer to be hontest.
I'm probably too new to the fediverse to have an educated opinion yet!
@nlm @Barbarian Yes, me and @sjzero have been having lots of trouble getting #Kbin to federate properly
It has excellent potential. It has only been around about a month and has quickly received a lot of interest and, from what I've read, there has been a surge in code contributions. I think it will be the preferred platform alt-Reddit platform once Kbin resolves its more significant issues and starts adding some QoL features.
I'm considering migrating when that happens, as then I have no need for Mastodon, I can just have everything on one site...
I wonder if you can turn off the mastodon part because I don't want or need it. But the magazines on kbin are really cool.
Feel free to join https://readit.buzz - we're federating and running KBIN. I run universeodon.com too.
Hi from kbin!
Hi kbin! Happy to see y'all joining us.
around 25k on kbin.social I believe, although a lot of them will be duplicates on lemmy and kbin
So KBin isn’t Lemmy? But it federated with Lemmy? Also, I see Mastodon federated with Lemmy, but what’s the point of that?
It's just another UI basically. I like Kbin a lot more than Lemmy aesthetically and it was easier to get used coming directly from Reddit. Also early on there was only one instance (there's like 3-5 now? I'm on Kbin.run) so it was a lot easier for people who didn't understand how it works to use.
Mastodon users who want to stay on mastodon can subscribe to communities on lemmy and see each post as a tweet in mastodon
and by subscribe I mean follow the community which shows up as a user account
@solberg @Barbarian It's more of you can message someone from somewhere else. Think of it like a mobile network, mastodon is t-mobile, kbin at&t and lemmy sprint ... you can talk to anyone you want but pay your bill in one place. Same with the fedi you have one home but can talk to anyone who federates with you or speaks your language ... in this case ActivityPub
Kbin and lemmy are compatible but different projects
@Barbarian so that's why I couldn't follow anything there.
Indeed, it will be interesting to see what will happen.
That's great, it's been a bit odd not being able to have access to half the fediverse.