Hey, folks. I’m new to this whole Fediverse thing. One of the things I’ve been most excited try out is the whole cross platform aspect, where you can follow peertube/mastodon/lemmy accounts from the other sites. I have my reddit account mostly switched over. I went through and found (I think) all of the communities I follow that have a presence on Lemmy. I’d like to start following some Mastodon accounts from my Lemmy if possible, but all the instructions I find when searching it talk about following Lemmy from Mastodon, not the other way around. When I copy the Mastodon links and search them within Lemmy, no results are found. I’ve tried through a browser, through Jerboa, and through Connect.
Can anyone help me?
Please and thank you!
Kbin is a parallel project to Lemmy in the Fediverse, one which launched some months ago. Lemmy has been around a couple of years. Both Kbin and Lemmy structure content similarly to reddit’s subreddit topics, where Kbin calls them “magazines” and Lemmy calls them “communities.” Topic threads are nested chains of comments and replies with inline media and a 10k character limit. Instances of Kbin and Lemmy can and do interact, with users from either community participating transparently in posts and discussions.
In a technical sense, Kbin is implemented in PHP, where Lemmy is implemented in Rust.
Kbin is also able to interact more closely with Mastodon instances, users and content. With an account on a Kbin instance, you can follow, boost and reduce Mastodon content, in addition to up voting or down voting it.
Kbin also natively displays a user reputation score which is similar to reddit karma, as the net value of boosts less reduces. Up and down votes are (seemingly) not tracked in the aggregate. Lemmy does not expose these stats in the default UI, though there are API endpoints that return this dats
A final distinction (at least that I know about) is that Lemmy exposes an API for 3rd party access and supporting 3rd party apps. Kbin does not yet have a pu loc API, though I understand that one is under development and is currently under review.
So to answer your question: no, i don’t believe there are no apps for Kbin yet, but app developers have indicated their intent to support Kbin when it is more mature.
I’m currently reading this and commenting from kbin.social on mobile. It just looks like any other thread.
Couple corrections on the rep technicalities: Upvotes didn’t count for rep at first, but they have for a few weeks now. For mastodon integration, upvote = favorite(like). Reduces and “downvotes” are not separate functions; a downvote IS a “reduce” and it’s always had a rep impact.