• .oOspaceshiptripOo. @lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Where does kbin fit with lemmy? Is it a competitor? I see a lot of posts pointing to lemmy communities. Can people create new kbin communities like lemmy?

    Kbin reminds me of slashdot, maybe it’s the UI

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for asking this!

      I set up accounts on both in the hysteria of leaving reddit.

      I think I get how the various lemmys work/interact, I just don’t know how Kbin fits into the picture.

      I am just using my laptop, not on mobile devices yet.

      Third day here, so still learning and giving lots of time and patience for the dust to settle

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    1 year ago

    So can Lemmy users see Mastodon stuff as well? I’ve tried to look up stuff from Lemmy on my Mastodon instance and it doesn’t work, but on my Mastodon server I can see my Lemmy account, but nothing on it.

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      1 year ago

      I think you’ll only be able to see your posts, and not your comments. So if you have no posts, you’ll have nothing to show mastodon users.

      One thing that I think is neat, and others think is a problem, is that you can @ tag any mastodon user with Lemmy and vice versa, and they’ll get a ping and be able to respond to it and join the conversation.

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    1 year ago

    This is great but beehaw defederated from Lemmy, Kbin, etc so we can see but can’t interact with them.

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      1 year ago

      Two likely possibilities with further detail about each below:

      1. The link you clicked took you to the community on the host instance rather than the copy on your local instance, or

      2. The community is on an instance that’s defederated with your home instance.

      When you view and interact with communities and content hosted on another server, you’re technically interacting with a copy of that community/content that’s hosted on your home server and kept in sync with the main copy. So if I want to subscribe to /c/technology hosted on lemmy.world even though my home instance is sh.itjust.works, I need to visit the copy on shitjustworks at sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

      If I went to lemmy.world/c/technology, I couldn’t interact because I don’t have an account on the lemmy.world site.

      As I said above, communities and content are copied between Lemmy instances and kept in sync across the copies. But sometimes an instance will ‘defederate’ with another, ie cutting the direct connection between them that lets them copy and sync content. In that case, there’s no local copy for me to subscribe to or interact with.

      The incorrect link is far more likely to be the issue than defederation, so whenever you run into that issue check the link and make sure it’s the copy on your instance.