why so many apps for lemmy but none for kbin?

  • Downcount@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Please, someone with more knowledge, enlighten me please:

    If kbin and lemmy both use the same protocol “activity pub”, why can’t an app designed for lemmy not easily communicate with a kbin server?

    • Zephyrix@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      They use the same protocol, but so far both of them have only implemented the server-to-server (federation) portion. Neither (to my knowledge) have implemented the client to server interactions.

      Lemmy has its own API, which is completely separate from the ActivityPub spec. Kbin doesn’t have an API yet, but one is actively being developed.