Asklemmy

43947 readers

909 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Following Mastodon accounts from Lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hey, folks. I'm new to this whole Fediverse thing. One of the things I've been most excited try out is the whole cross platform aspect, where you can follow peertube/mastodon/lemmy accounts from the other sites. I have my reddit account mostly switched over. I went through and found (I think) all of the communities I follow that have a presence on Lemmy. I'd like to start following some Mastodon accounts from my Lemmy if possible, but all the instructions I find when searching it talk about following Lemmy from Mastodon, not the other way around. When I copy the Mastodon links and search them within Lemmy, no results are found. I've tried through a browser, through Jerboa, and through Connect.

Can anyone help me?

Please and thank you!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kbin is a parallel project to Lemmy in the Fediverse, one which launched some months ago. Lemmy has been around a couple of years. Both Kbin and Lemmy structure content similarly to reddit's subreddit topics, where Kbin calls them "magazines" and Lemmy calls them "communities." Topic threads are nested chains of comments and replies with inline media and a 10k character limit. Instances of Kbin and Lemmy can and do interact, with users from either community participating transparently in posts and discussions.

In a technical sense, Kbin is implemented in PHP, where Lemmy is implemented in Rust.

Kbin is also able to interact more closely with Mastodon instances, users and content. With an account on a Kbin instance, you can follow, boost and reduce Mastodon content, in addition to up voting or down voting it.

Kbin also natively displays a user reputation score which is similar to reddit karma, as the net value of boosts less reduces. Up and down votes are (seemingly) not tracked in the aggregate. Lemmy does not expose these stats in the default UI, though there are API endpoints that return this dats

A final distinction (at least that I know about) is that Lemmy exposes an API for 3rd party access and supporting 3rd party apps. Kbin does not yet have a pu loc API, though I understand that one is under development and is currently under review.

So to answer your question: no, i don't believe there are no apps for Kbin yet, but app developers have indicated their intent to support Kbin when it is more mature.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'm currently reading this and commenting from kbin.social on mobile. It just looks like any other thread.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Couple corrections on the rep technicalities: Upvotes didn't count for rep at first, but they have for a few weeks now. For mastodon integration, upvote = favorite(like). Reduces and "downvotes" are not separate functions; a downvote IS a "reduce" and it's always had a rep impact.