• .oOspaceshiptripOo. @lemmy.world
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    Where does kbin fit with lemmy? Is it a competitor? I see a lot of posts pointing to lemmy communities. Can people create new kbin communities like lemmy?

    Kbin reminds me of slashdot, maybe it’s the UI

    • yool_ooloo@lemmy.world
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      Thanks for asking this!

      I set up accounts on both in the hysteria of leaving reddit.

      I think I get how the various lemmys work/interact, I just don’t know how Kbin fits into the picture.

      I am just using my laptop, not on mobile devices yet.

      Third day here, so still learning and giving lots of time and patience for the dust to settle

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    1 year ago

    This is great but beehaw defederated from Lemmy, Kbin, etc so we can see but can’t interact with them.

  • ShustOne@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    This would have helped me years ago when I was kind of confused on Mastodon. Very nice intro to new users.

  • toxic@lemmy.world
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    This is great but beehaw defederated from Lemmy, Kbin, etc so we can see but can’t interact with them.

  • Potato_Lo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Thank you so much for sharing this! As a newcomer, this help me understand Lemmy much better :)

  • dhamster@lemmy.world
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    So can Lemmy users see Mastodon stuff as well? I’ve tried to look up stuff from Lemmy on my Mastodon instance and it doesn’t work, but on my Mastodon server I can see my Lemmy account, but nothing on it.

    • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi
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      I think you’ll only be able to see your posts, and not your comments. So if you have no posts, you’ll have nothing to show mastodon users.

      One thing that I think is neat, and others think is a problem, is that you can @ tag any mastodon user with Lemmy and vice versa, and they’ll get a ping and be able to respond to it and join the conversation.

  • python@programming.dev
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    Thank you, this is very well made and covers all the basic questions!

    I’d also like to add that you can get very cool usernames by joining smaller instances, since usernames don’t have to be unique between instances ;)

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        1 year ago

        Indeed! I’m not even a python programmer (I do Delphi but was recently moved into PERN) I just like the snake and have been going by variations of python for years lol

  • NaN@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Great graphic. The only thing that is unmentioned and potentially confusing is that the same community names can exist on multiple instances, just like email addresses can do.

    I don’t know how to easily boil that down to a simple graphic.

    • angrynomad@infosec.pubOP
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      not actually mine , credit is on the bottom left, but I cant even re-load the image, let alone lemmy.world, it’s all so slow. I was actually trying to find the original to link to someone else and couldnt load lemmy.world

  • NeoAgostosTheos@lemmy.world
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    To access/join communities on other instances, would I need to create an account on that instance? In the graphic it says I can only search for communities on that instance.

    • Future203@programming.dev
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      You can access and subscribe to communities in other instances as long as they are still federated (connected) with the instance your account is in.

  • manolo_r6@lemmy.world
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    Newb to the fediverse here. This graphic is really helpful. One, probably dumb, question: where does something like kbin.social fall into this? Is it part of the fediverse or a different *verse?

    • StarManta@lemmy.world
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      kbin is also a part of the fediverse. It’s similar enough to Lemmy that (as far as I can tell) they seem to be virtually interchangeable.

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        Kbin is sorta like an alternate Lemmy client.

        A bad comparison would be like Hotmail vs gmail. Both are email, but slightly different interfaces.