I’m trying to get my head wrapped around the identity (or purpose) of Kbin.

I tried out #Lemmy and #Kbin for a little more than a week each and found Lemmy a lot easier to onboard. You create posts that you post in communities. And you have threads of posts within communities that are centered around a common topic. Very similar to a forum. The terminology used is relatable since “community” also has meaning in other parts of life.

The curiosity in me always keeps going back to Kbin and really wanting to understand it more. Partially because Kbin’s UI/UX was more engaging. But the terminology was a bit confusing at first until I did some research and read the FAQ posts. Magazines = communities. Articles = posts that goes within the magazines. But the one part that still confused me was the “post” option that goes to a completely different microblog section. For the life of me, I couldn’t grasp what or why there was a microblog section for a link aggregator software. And when do I create an article versus a post.

It finally all clicked when I came across this thread in Kbin’s code repo: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/406. I finally understood the reasoning behind the Microblog section and that it interacts with other parts of the Fediverse (i.e. Mastodon). And that if setup properly, Magazines can pull in Mastodon (and other Fediverse software) posts based on tags and it goes to the Microblog section for that Magazine.

My question to the community is this. What is Kbin trying to be? What is its purpose? It seems like it’s trying to be a link aggregator and a microblogging software, but I could be wrong. Why use Kbin over Mastodon to post a microblog to the Fediverse? Genuinely curious!

  • acedelgado@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Kbin seems to be pretty ambitious in that it’s aiming at being a hub for (almost) all of the fediverse. So Lemmy’s reddit-like forums, mastodon’s quick posts a la Twitter, and peertube’s youtube - style services - it’s looking to bring all of those fediverse platforms so they’re all accessible in one place rather than having to sign up for each. That way it’s an easy place to go to for your decentralized social media content. So really it’s just looking to make the fediverse more easily accessible and improve the user’s experience.

    It’s a pretty big idea and it’s pretty damn impressive what Ernest accomplished before this big fediverse boom. I’m excited to see where it goes.