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They are not the same, but they can talk to each other. Both aim to create a reddit-like experience with groups, threads and votes. And both use the ActivityPub protocol, meaning that not only can different kbin (or lemmy) servers talk to each other and you can see groups, conversations etc from other servers on your own (if both servers agree to talk to each other), they can also talk to entirely different services. So you can interact with mastodon posts in kbin and kbin groups on lemmy etc.
So they both follow the same basic rules of communication, but otherwise are fairly different. Written in different programming languages (I thinm), different features implemented, different UI.
So for the most part, in terms of what conversations you want to take part in, it mostly doesn't matter which you use. But in terms of user experience and features, there can be big differences so you can try out both and see what suits you better.
Ok I think I understand better thanks for taking the time to explain. One thing that I don’t fully understand- I have a mastodon login, a beehaw login, and a kbin login. Do I need all of these? If you want to interact with eg a kbin post as a beehaw user do you login with beehaw account on kbin or do you interact with kbin posts via the beehaw site and ui?
Similar to what @fr0g said. One of the common misconceptions about the fediverse seems to be "I have a Twitter account so I should be able to log into FB, IG, YT, Reddit, etc with it." In reality it's kinda the opposite. You can only log into the server you signed up on, but your Twitter account can talk to and follow accounts on YT, FB, IG, Reddit, etc. That's the magic of the Fediverse.
I ended up with maybe a dozen accounts as I explored, but more or less settled on a Calckey account (similar to Mastodon which I still have, but don't use), a kbin account (technically still have a lemmy.ml also) and a Pixelfed account (IG).
I think I’m getting it now! Thanks for your help