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Difference between kbin and lemmy (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago by YoTcA@feddit.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Lately I often read about kbin.social being similar to lemmy but more accessible. So I created an account there to check it out. My experience so far is a little mixed. From kbin I can access all Lemmy posts, although I find the interface less intuitive to join new communities. So from the kbin side it feels like an other Lemmy instance.

But when searching for kbin from this Lemmy Account, I do not find much. I feel like I am missing some basic concept, that makes it pretty clear. Why this is such a one way experience.

So now I am wondering: How does this work, what are the difference, what do both sites have in common?

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[–] DarraignTheSane@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

On Lemmy, if a community on another server doesn't appear when you search for it, you can use the syntax "!communityname@server.name". Your login Lemmy server will then go out and index it and it will appear in the search a few moments later.

Is there a way to do that on kbin? I've tried every syntax for a Lemmy community that I know of and nothing seems to work.

!communityname@server.name
/c/communityname@server.name
server.name/c/communityname
@communityname@server.name
etc.

[–] ernest@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I will be working on it soon to standardize it across platforms. I will also describe it in the project's wiki. I'll let you know.
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/4

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does @communityname@server.name work?
That's how I tend to find things on most fedi places (masto, pixelfeed etc) and so far it's worked fine here as well.

[–] lps@masto.1146.nohost.me 1 points 1 year ago

@0xtero @YoTcA @Kory @ernest @DarraignTheSane I am connecting from mastodon and was wondering the same, I haven't had much luck