• thatdukeluke@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    As someone on Kbin I often find myself commenting to people looking for certain magazines only to realize after replying they are on an instance of lemmy. But they can still look at the magazines like I can look at their communities. I find all that very fascinating and new.

    • Lazycog@lemmy.one
      2·
      1 year ago

      Just makes linking a magazine (on lemmy they are called communities) a pain because lemmy uses the !exclamation mark to refer to a magazine while kbin uses @ at sign in the beginning of the fediverse link. But to be honest reddit was kind of confusing to me in the beginning as well.

    • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Go to kbin.social in one tab and vlemmy.net in another and you will see the differences pretty quickly.

      Mostly the “microblog” section and how everything is labelled and arranged, since Kbin is completely seperate software

      • Shlomito@vlemmy.netEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I did, but mostly I just saw that the UI was different, and it had microblogging. So Kbin, practically speaking, is just Mastodon and Lemmy mixed into the same site, but on different tabs? That’s all I’m getting. It calls communities ‘magazines’, but seeing as lemmy communities from other instances are treated as magazines, they’re basically the same? Same with the ‘tweets’?

  • Ingwie Phoenix@drachennetz.comEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    No, just the way the Fediverse works. :)

    …and, to go on a bit of a tangent, how the internet “used to” work. You still see the remnant with E-Mails; they can go between servers. Most other services have become locked and centralized now. There was a short bit of time where MSN, AIM and YIM were practically compatible with one another due to sharing many of the same XMPP protos.

    Personally I am happy to see this again, been too long ^^

      • catsup@lemmy.oneEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        wdym viable? Lemmy instances aren’t a business, and afaik the server load depends on the number of users and their activity.

        • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Viable in the sense that, can you even connect to the fediverse as a one user server or do you get insta-blacklisted. Can you post in communities, reply to comments on the fediverse.

    • ScottyB@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Tell me more friend. I had a browse, so you’ve set up your own instance with only your account on. Then from there, you can essentially manage your own version of lemmy/kbin etc. with your own subscriptions and it’ll federate those magazines?

      I think this could be the answer for the way I intend to go forward.

      • jason123santa@lemmy.jasonsanta.xyz
        0·
        1 year ago

        What I do is setup my own instance so that I connect to my own instance and then it connects to the communites from other instances. I can make my own community and people from other instances can connect to that community.

    • TWeaK@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You won’t see edits though.

      Edit: and others won’t see yours. This is invisible unless you’re on lemmy.ml