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?
I am striving to make the foundations very similar to Lemmy’s, to facilitate potential migration in either direction. The main differences are that /kbin will ultimately be a modular gateway to the entire fediverse. I will tell you more about it a bit later.
You can search for groups and users in the following way (this will also be improved):
https://kbin.social/search?q=%40ernest%40szmer.info
https://kbin.social/search?q=%40wolnyinternet%40szmer.info
You can also disable federation in the options (sidebar) and only see local posts.
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.
Can you send me the names of the communities in a private message? I’ll see what can be done.
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.
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
Does
@communityname@server.namework?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.
@0xtero @YoTcA @Kory @ernest @DarraignTheSane I am connecting from mastodon and was wondering the same, I haven’t had much luck
Sure thing and thank you. Will do it later though, have to run! :)
Thanks for the answer and all the work you put into kbin. Really like the design so far. Only have to get used to the structure a little more.
Something else I am wondering: when I registered at kbin I think I never could choose an instance. So is it only possible to use kbin with a registration at kbin.social or is a plan to allow other instances of it?
I’m intrigued by the idea of being able to talk to other Fediverse apps, but searching for my Pleroma account at @missingno to test this out turns up nothing. Is there some way to force discovery?
Very excited to see how this all turns out. This is my favorite fedi site so far.