Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
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Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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Lemmy is more of a Reddit alternative, where you have the focus on communities/categories (similar to "subreddits") to which you can subscribe to, while Mastodon is more a Twitter alternative, focusing on users to follow.
Kbin is actually slightly special.
It is also running on the Fediverse network, but can communicate with multiple other services. Meaning, it can show you content from all Lemmy instances (called Threads) and content from Mastodon (called Microblog). You can see this thread there as well.
By using Kbin, you have access to both worlds, Lemmy and Mastodon. In addition, it supports even more of the so-called "ActivityPub" services, like Pleroma or Peertube.
While I love the implementation of Kbin, it still has small hiccups here and there - it feels less reliable/stable. Some content isn't fully updated, like this post missing most of the comments at the time I posted this. They even warn you about it: "The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance."
I had the best experience so far by using a Lemmy instance for Lemmy and a Mastodon instance for Mastodon. Waiting for Kbin to be more mature.
FYI, Lemmy uses ActivityPub too. It is fully compatible with other fediverse services. Just not executed as cleanly as kbin.