This question is especially for people who have joined in the last week. Have you used other fediverse platforms or is this your first time really using one? What do you think of it so far? Are you aware that you can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account?
This is my first dip into the fediverse.
I have no interest in a personal page like twitter or facebook / meta, so no plans for mastadon as well.
That said, can someone ELI5 the difference between Lemmy and Kbin?
Is there a reference for all the fediverse places outside of those mentioned above?
The difference is only on who runs the instance, and what particular rules said instance has, like restricting submissions, or disabling downvotes or nsfw communities. That’s it. That’s why you can make an account on lemmy but still post and comment and suscribe in kbin communities.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances this is a list of most but not all instances out there.
Thank you for the response.
To make sure I understand correctly, kbin and lemmy are essentially different sites running different instances of effectively the same thing on the fediverse?
I appreciate the link as well.
Just trying to understand this federation interwebs a bit more.
Pretty much, yeah. See them as different entryways into the same social space.
Awesome. Thanks for confirming!
Kbin and Lemmy are software that you can run on a server to host a public (or private) instance. Kbin is newer and there aren’t a lot of servers hosting it, but I expect it to grow quickly.
Lemmy is very similar to Reddit where you can post in a community (subreddit) and have threaded comments. You can subscribe to those communities and see the posts in one place.
Kbin offers this same functionality, and because it works with the fediverse, you can use your Kbin account to join communities on Lemmy servers. In Kbin, these are called threads. Kbin also have a microblogging feature, like Matodon, so you can follow Mastodon users there in a Twitter-like format if you’re interested in that. Lastly, Kbin combines Threads and microblogging into “Magazines” about a specific topic, allowing people to interact in whichever format they like most.
Wow thats good info to know. Thank you for the crash course!