YSK that kbin.social is now federating, adding hundreds of communities and ~26k more users content
Because they don't get listed by browse.feddit.de you'll want to browse https://kbin.social/magazines to browse "magazines", which is what they call communities
e.g. !RedditMigration@kbin.social
or directly, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration
Why YSK: Federation literally just synched up thanks to the tireless efforts by @ernest@kbin.social over the past few days.
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What's the difference between kbin and Lemmy? I thought they were just different instances of the same open source project with different host names.
They are different software with a compatible protocol also used by a handful of other software including Mastodon. There are other kbin instances like fedia.io and there are hundreds of Lemmy instances.
Since the beginning of the Reddit blackout, kbin.social had been running in isolation due to server load. Now it is fully integrated with the rest of us (I'm not on kbin at the moment).
Lemmy and kbin are completely different Software but they can talk to each other with the same protocol.
Different software. Kbin is written in PHP, Lemmy with Rust.
PHP?! Jesus Christ!
I know! Why would they do that to themselves!
hey don't kink shame!
Honestly, this clears so much up for me :). It's the only reasonable assumption, it's gotta be a masochism thing haha.