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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?

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[–] ernest@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ernest@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you send me the names of the communities in a private message? I'll see what can be done.

[–] DarraignTheSane@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

On Lemmy, if a community on another server doesn't appear when you search for it, you can use the syntax "!communityname@server.name". 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.

!communityname@server.name
/c/communityname@server.name
server.name/c/communityname
@communityname@server.name
etc.

[–] ernest@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does @communityname@server.name work?
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.

[–] lps@masto.1146.nohost.me 1 points 1 year ago

@0xtero @YoTcA @Kory @ernest @DarraignTheSane I am connecting from mastodon and was wondering the same, I haven't had much luck

[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Sure thing and thank you. Will do it later though, have to run! :)

[–] missingno@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] YoTcA@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] strepto@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Very excited to see how this all turns out. This is my favorite fedi site so far.