Seems the growth shows no sign of slowing

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What actually is kbin? Is it just Lemmy with a different user interface? Does it have multiple instances like Lemmy?

    • Tarte@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The goal of Kbin is to communicate with many other ActivityPup services.

      Lemmy: Link aggregator, social network, forum
      Kbin: Link aggregator, social network, forum, microblogging
      Mastodon: Microblogging

      You can use Kbin to interact with Lemmy, Mastodon, Pleroma, Peertube, and others. That’s why I switched today (and loving it, exploring everything right now).

      I don’t believe that there are multiple instances of Kbin right now. I only know of kbin.social (it is free and open source, though, so anyone can open another instance, I think). Edit: This was wrong. There are many instances. See the answer below.

    • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Its a completely different link agreggator software. But since both Lemmy and kbin are based on the ActivityPub protocol, instances of both can federate with each other. Hence, lemmy users can see content posted on kbin instances and vice versa.