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Overwhelmed a bit with fediverse redundancy. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by jezebelley@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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I’m a bit confused as to what platform I should look to for my exodus from Reddit. First we have Lemmy which is a direct Reddit alternative. Then we have kbin which is ALSO is own Reddit alternative AND portal to Lemmy/Mastodon. Finally we have Mastodon which is the well established Twitter alternative that doesn’t really portal to Lemmy or Kbin.

I’m ok with Mastodon being it’s own thing, but what about Lemmy and Kbin? Kbin seems more secure and flexible but Lemmy is longer running with apps available on iOS and Android.

Which do you think you’ll be gravitating towards?

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[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.house 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They all talk to each other.

From my mastodon account i can:

  • follow sublemmys
  • follow lemmy users
  • comment on lemmy posts
  • comment on lemmy comments
  • share lemmy posts
  • share lemmy comments

From my lemmy account i can:

  • follow mastodon users
  • comment on mastodon users posts
  • comment on mastodon users comments
  • crosspost mastodon users posts to sublemmys

While i have never used kbin i have no doubt that it can do everything listed above.

Really the fediverse is a "choose your own interface" kinda place. Do you understand reddit UI best? Use lemmy. Does twitter UI make sense to you? Use mastodon. Do you like both? Use both for different reasons. Either way you can interact with anyone, using anything, anywhere that uses activitypub and anyone, from anywhere, using anything supporting activitypub can interact with you. That is the whole point. Get rid of the silo social media so you never have to lose your social graph again because you moved to a new service they are not on

[–] imperator@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Is there any good documentation about how to go about doing this? What's the user experience like?