Kbin is the first Reddit alternative I looked at and i liked the UI so I stuck with it. I kind of assumed everything would be kbin. I thought I understood things. I thought it was kbin and lemmy separate but they federated and so I’d be able to access lemmy stuff from kbin. Which I guess is true. But now I’m confused. I look at all, and I see a post in m/main@sh.itjust.works and the post is from lemmy.world and it’s devs. I’m not subbed to m/main, so did Ernest curate /all and add it? Are people cross posting from lemmy into sh.itjust.works? I feel like I need a drawing or red string diagram.

    • Xathonn@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Yes Kbin has magazines hosted on it’s own servers as well. Lemmy users can access those communities as well like how Kbin can access Lemmy

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      kbin.social is effectively a Lemmy instance as far as magazines/communities go. Lemmy users can join and post in kbin magazines. kbin users can do the same with Lemmy communities. If kbin used the term “communities” instead of “magazines” it would be much less confusing.

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        1 year ago

        I’d say we can try to normalize terminology, but that would fuck up coding/urls, right?

        Disclaimer: I know shit about coding.

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          under the hood it’s all “activitypub” and works identically. it’s only the end-user gui that has things named differently.