I thought kbin was already federated and compatible with lemmy?
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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It was, and then it wasn't as the admin had to enable Cloudflare DDOS protection during the Reddit surge. This broke federation, but it's back off now and Kbin's back in the fold.
I‘ve been commenting and upvoting stuff on lemmy all day long from kbin, no idea how that would be possible if they weren‘t federated.
Federation was turned back on well before this was posted. Like probably a day or two or three ago.
Good news: You are already federating with the greater fediverse! Mastodon checking in. :)
Now that Sync for Reddit is being discontinued I'm dropping Reddit.
I saw a good write-up about kbin, so I signed up about a day ago and have been liking what I see - although it's obviously still in its early stages.
I don't know much about Lemmy and Federation, but is it a bit like the Newsgroups of old (Usenet), where you joined a Usenet service and any posts on any service propagated across all servers?
Can someone please ELI5 federation to me? I keep seeing threads and comments about this but I don't understand the concept. Does federation essentially just mean connecting all different instances and platforms across the fediverse which is how I can use kbin and see all the content here even if it's from Lemmy?
edit: thanks everyone for the answers :)
How do lemmings subscribe to https://kbin.social/magazines?
I tried searching for [email protected] but no results.
Edit: Thanks for the replies! I could find and subscribe to the magazine using this search query:
Try going to /c/[email protected] and clicking the subscribe button there.
404: couldnt_find_community
Probably because I'm from a small instance and none of my fellow lemmings has discovered it yet. Though even for big instances, someone has to be the first. So how to discover magazines?
Can someone ELI5 Lemmy vs Kbin for me? I understand that they are both part of fediverse, and they seem to be accomplishing the same task... but there are people saying that they prefer one over the other or that one is better than the other. I made accounts on lemmy and kbin and I can't see any real difference as a user.
Check out the microblog section of kbin. That and the overall layout/design are the main differences. Imo Kbin feels like a cross between Reddit and Twitter and Lemmy feels closer to Reddit
Interesting. Am I correct in understanding that the microblog on kbin is basically a feed that is equivalent to Mastodon? That it is a separate thing from the magizines/communities there, as opposed to just another way of viewing the same data?
That's my understanding. You can "boost" which effectively tweets a reddit thread under your profile. I wasn't really using that feature too much. The "reddit" part of the UI felt slick enough