Is Kbin lemmy? I’m so confused!

SoupOfTheDay@kbin.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 77 points –

Kbin is the first Reddit alternative I looked at and i liked the UI so I stuck with it. I kind of assumed everything would be kbin. I thought I understood things. I thought it was kbin and lemmy separate but they federated and so I’d be able to access lemmy stuff from kbin. Which I guess is true. But now I’m confused. I look at all, and I see a post in m/main@sh.itjust.works and the post is from lemmy.world and it’s devs. I’m not subbed to m/main, so did Ernest curate /all and add it? Are people cross posting from lemmy into sh.itjust.works? I feel like I need a drawing or red string diagram.

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Afaik Lemmy is a protocol used by a bunch of servers; lemmy.world, shitjustworks, lemmy.ml, etc. They're all (well, mostly) connected to each other, and each hosts various communities that any member can access. You can access it all through kbin, though kbin is different from lemmy. For example, this community is on lemmy.world, and you posted it here from kbin. I saw it and responded from kbin.

"All" gives you all the content your home server has access to.

I hope that's helpful. I'm still learning myself.

The protocol they have in common is ActivityPub, the same thing used by Mastodon, Calckey, etc..

Clarification: the protocol is ActivityPub.

Lemmy is open source software built on the protocol. (Kbin and others are different sofware but also built on Activity Pub)

Instances, Lemmy.world, and Sh.itjust.works are clones of Lemmy running independently but federated.