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Difference between kbin and lemmy (feddit.de)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Lately I often read about kbin.social being similar to lemmy but more accessible. So I created an account there to check it out. My experience so far is a little mixed. From kbin I can access all Lemmy posts, although I find the interface less intuitive to join new communities. So from the kbin side it feels like an other Lemmy instance.

But when searching for kbin from this Lemmy Account, I do not find much. I feel like I am missing some basic concept, that makes it pretty clear. Why this is such a one way experience.

So now I am wondering: How does this work, what are the difference, what do both sites have in common?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really like what you are building there, but at the moment I often cannot find the communities I'm subscribed to on Lemmy so I tend to jump between those two.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can you send me the names of the communities in a private message? I'll see what can be done.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

On Lemmy, if a community on another server doesn't appear when you search for it, you can use the syntax "[email protected]". Your login Lemmy server will then go out and index it and it will appear in the search a few moments later.

Is there a way to do that on kbin? I've tried every syntax for a Lemmy community that I know of and nothing seems to work.

[email protected]
/c/[email protected]
server.name/c/communityname
@[email protected]
etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I will be working on it soon to standardize it across platforms. I will also describe it in the project's wiki. I'll let you know.
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/4

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Does @[email protected] work?
That's how I tend to find things on most fedi places (masto, pixelfeed etc) and so far it's worked fine here as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure thing and thank you. Will do it later though, have to run! :)