I’ve seen people say that you can access kbin from Lemmy and vice versa. I can’t seem to do it in browser or with Jerboa. I can’t find an actual answer either.

Edit: I even noticed kbin.social is a linked instance.

    • jonah@lemmy.one
      7·
      1 year ago

      This is why I encourage individual people to try out Kbin if they like the design or project better or whatever, but Lemmy was the only choice for me to host a community like !privacyguides@lemmy.one on, and I encourage other community mods to use Lemmy as well. Community federation and community moderation in general is simply far more mature on Lemmy at the moment. I’m very glad that I can host a community on Lemmy and Kbin users can still access it though :)

      • Lucien@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        Hm, so you’re saying that for an individual who wants to self-host a single-user instance and interact with everyone else over activity-pub (e.g. post on lemmy communities and reply to mastodon toots), kbin may be a good choice?

        It does seem to me that the multiple types of published events (threads / microblogging ) might allow someone to interact easily with both mastodon and lemmy in a near-native format, but I haven’t tried using it like that.

        • jonah@lemmy.one
          5·
          1 year ago

          I’d personally still prefer to self-host Lemmy over Kbin for various reasons (primarily because Kbin is PHP, ew), but feature-wise I would say Kbin is roughly the same as Lemmy for just browsing/interacting as a user, yes. Perhaps better for interacting with Mastodon even, but I haven’t checked out Kbin’s microblogging area enough to give an opinion on it one way or the other.

    • deadcyclo@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      It seems to be kind of hit and miss. I tried getting norge@kbin.social into lemmy yesterday. It kind of worked on lemmy.ml but only showed older posts. On lemmy.world it didn’t work at all, and still doesn’t.

      • BenDoubleU@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, that’s the biggest thing that turned me away from using kbin. It almost seems like it wants the community/posts from its instance to be the de facto ones. /tin foil hat

        • deadcyclo@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 year ago

          I mean. Even when I take off my tinfoil hat, kbin is very immature software made by a single guy, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he spent a lot of time polishing pulling content in, and very little time on pushing out.

    • em2@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      You’re supposed to be able to type !community@instance but that didn’t work for me. Instead, I had to go to my browser and paste the whole url (ex. Https://kbin.social/m/apple) into the search bar and then Lemmy was able to find it. It does take a while to sync though.