I see kbin.social mentioned here and there where lemmy is discussed. How are those two related? Are they linked up, or are those completely separate communities?

  • SuitedUpDev@feddit.nlEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    They both operate on the same protocol called ActivityPub. So that mean it is possible for Lemmy users to interact with Kbin communities (or magazines, as they call them) and for Kbin users to interact with our communities.

    Technically it’s also possible for Mastodon (since that also uses ActivityPub) user’s to reply to posts here… It’s not very user friendly, but it is possible.

    • Fubarberry@aiparadise.moeEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Thanks for explaining. So there’s no content being missed out on by joining just kbin or Lemmy right? Just a different interface and different “local” instance?

    • llama
      1·
      2 years ago

      Am I able to subscribe to kbin magazines from Lemmy, or is it only the other way around? I try searching for them as !magazine@kbin.server and nothing ever comes up but that might just be because it’s slow to federate.

        • llama
          1·
          2 years ago

          If I search !tech@kbin.social from my Lemmy instance I can’t find anything. So it seems like kbin users can interact with Lemmy but Lemmy users can’t interact with kbin.

          • PierreKanazawa@fedia.io
            1·
            2 years ago

            It’s kbin.social’s issue. I’m on another kbin instance and can’t find them either. Maybe wait for them to turn off CF and try later.

        • s4if@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          hello, how is there? I heard kbin.social uses cloudflare and limiting federation because high load causing errors and even my instance at lemmy.world also not responsive albeit still usable rn. how is the load and responsiveness on fedia.io? just courious.