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@fomo_erotic @mstrbtr
Lemmy and kbin are two softwares who speak the same language. You can see kbin posts on lemmy and lemmy posts on kbin. Communities from lemmy are called magazines on kbin.
The features and UI are different. Kbin is more integrated to Twitter-like softwares like mastodon.
What does this mean exactly? Wouldn't mastodon's way of working be incompatible with kbin/lemmy since one has strict hierarchy magazine/community>thread/submission>comment, and the other is just a bunch of comments like twitter? Basically subject vs person driven content?
@Kaldo @mstrbtr @fomo_erotic
Kbin has a "microblog" tab, you can see posts from mastodon people there. They’re either associated to a magazibe thanks to hashtags or in "random". And you can follow people.
On lemmy, you can’t follow people and any post that isn’t associated to a community is just invisible to you.
All a community/magazine is is an group in ActivityPub, just like in Mastodon or lemmy/kbin/calckey etc. Following and posting a message to that group from Mastodon amounts to working exactly the same as you would follow/post to another user. The only difference is that Mastodon uses the 'note' data type and lemmy/KBin use 'article' amongst others.
On kbin a magazine can be setup to track hashtags and any 'note' with that hashtag will appear there too.