They’re both built on ActivityPub and look very similar, but Kbin is talked about like an alternative to Lemmy instead of an instance of it. Is it a fork? Why is it better or worse?

  • aroom@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    you have to take into account that kbin.social is not yet totally federated with other instances, because the website is under a Cloudflare protection. this is to let the main dev focus on more important thing that dealing with a direct attack on the website servers. it will be re-federated gradually.

    other instances like https://fedia.io are federated if I’m correct.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not gonna lie, outside of a few communities im not really sure how much I care about this site federating with lemmy instances. Especially ones like lemmygrad.

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        1 year ago

        At least we have the option to turn off federation. I haven’t done so yet, but I have noticed a dive in post quality since federation was turned back on. Everything on kbin itself that I’ve seen has been cordial and civil, but there have been a number of comments from lemmy users I’ve seen in just the last day that led me to block some channels of theirs, and a bit more shitposting than I’d like in my feed.