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
Hi from kbin!
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.
@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
@Barbarian so that’s why I couldn’t follow anything there.
Indeed, it will be interesting to see what will happen.
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?
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.
The only reason federation wasn’t working was because they had to turn on CloudFlare protection just to keep the site from crashing. That interfered with federation. Assuming they’re able to upgrade enough to handle the traffic, they’ll federate as easily as lemmy does.
