• Faendol
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    1 year ago

    What’s the difference between kbin and Lemmy? I thought they were just different instances of the same open source project with different host names.

    • CodingAndCoffee@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      They are different software with a compatible protocol also used by a handful of other software including Mastodon. There are other kbin instances like fedia.io and there are hundreds of Lemmy instances.

      Since the beginning of the Reddit blackout, kbin.social had been running in isolation due to server load. Now it is fully integrated with the rest of us (I’m not on kbin at the moment).

    • chris@l.roofo.cc
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      Lemmy and kbin are completely different Software but they can talk to each other with the same protocol.