Only if you are in the Microblog tab, since it treats every post as something more akin to a tweet. However it shouldn't show up on the Threads tab.
Also, you can't collapse comments at the moment, however the feature is being developed.
I'm a bit confused, started using Lemmy earlier this month, made an account so I can subscribe to communities that interest me, still figuring it out a bit. What is kbin? Thanks!
It's honestly kind of magic. I'm still not fully up to speed, notably I can never find anything in search... But at least my active feed just started showing much fresher content, they must have fixed that bug that made it only show days old posts (I'm on Lemmy).
Kbin is another federated instance on the verse just like Lemmy, it just has a different UI. I'm browsing this thread and commenting through kbin right now, we can all interact with the same posts :)
Another way to look at it is like different flavors or the same operating systems like Linux with kde vs gnome. Or if you’re not a computer buff, Windows 10 or Windows 11. More or less…
My favorite analogy is email- it doesn’t matter if you have @gmail, @outlook, or even disgusting ones like @yahoo or @hotmail, you can send and receive emails using the same protocols between any of them.
Right. But we’re talking specifically about the differences between KBin and Lemmy. Lemmy.one, VLemmy.net, and Lemmy.ml are all Lemmy backends - look identical. KBin.social is not a Lemmy backend but incorporates the functionality required to operate with those instances the way they expect (upvotes, downvotes, etc). KBin also has functionality to work with Mastodon instances (Boost, favorite, etc).
If you look at the links by each post, you'll notice that some will reference a URL that goes off of your local instance. In Lemmy these are icons, in kbin it appears from the "more" link. Sometimes it's unclear who/where I'm interacting with and examining the URL helps me get some idea of it. In federated social media different instances often develop a different subculture, but since they can access each other you have more dimensions of interaction and how to behave.
Think about email in comparison to for example Facebook. On Facebook, the content and the platform are to sides of the same coin: the two cannot be separated. In email, on the other hand, the two are separate: the content (emails) is separate from the provider (Google, Protonmail, or some old laptop with an internet connection functioning as a server). Emails can be sent between the different platforms, as it is based on a protocol that exists independently of the providers.
Lemmy is the same way. In the example above, Lemmy is a piece of software you could install on your old laptop (or other people can install on hopefully more sophisticated servers) in order to communicate with other services. That's why Lemmy can be found on multiple websites (lemmy.world or beehaw.org, among others). Just like in email however, the protocol is separate: the protocol Lemmy runs on is called ActivityPub, and works with not only Lemmy, but also other software. Mastodon is the most famous; kbin is another.
Like Lemmy, kbin is a client for ActivityPub that is made to function a lot like Reddit. It is developed completely separately, but according to similar logics: I saw your message in kbin and am responding to it from there, and when I upvoted your post you recieved an upvote in your Lemmy. It's similar to if you are using Outlook and I am using Gmail: I can still send you an email and communicate effortlessly across the two services.
The difference between kbin and Lemmy is mostly in user experience. Both projects are work in progress, development is happening fast, and they have both seen an explosion in the number of users the last few days. Content spreads between both freely, so the choice between them is really mostly about user interface preferences. It will be fun to see how both projects develop.
kbin.social is like lemmy.world, etc.... It's another instance (though maybe/probably there are other technical differences I don't understand). I am speaking to you from kbin right now. It's magic, you see.
Get a shit ton of lye, chop it up in small pieces (a hacksaw works best), dump all of the parts in a tub, dump the lye in there, wait for 2 or 3 days. Get some thick plastic gloves up to your elbow, start gathering the teeth an pieces of bone from the bottom. The rest, scoop and into the toilet. Flush, a few times after every drop. Scatter tge oieces of bone and teeth in a river.
You gotta starve the pigs for a few days then the sight of a chopped up body would look like curry to a pissant. You gotta shave the head of your victim and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggy's digestion. You could do this afterwards of course but you don't wanna go sifting through pig shit now do ya? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to do the job in one sitting so be weary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs two-hundred pounds in about...eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of un-cooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression: "as greedy as a pig."
Hello from lemmy UK. So I came here after recent api changes having used RIF for about 10 years. However finding that I hadn't realise how incrementally shite reddit had gotten over the years. This feels so much like old school discussion forums. Feeling excited for the future and will be staying here.
I've noticed that every post I have looked at in the last 3 days has had exactly 1 downvote. Even if it was a really basic post that doesn't warrant judgement in any meaningful way.
Imagine complaining about which interface people choose to interact with the same content pool with. That's like the main reason the fediverse has exploded in popularity over these last few weeks. Sheesh.
I'd bet more likely the meme formatted is associated with "thing you already have and should invest energy into vs thing you take an interest in despite it being not as good"
I'm a Lemmy user and I'm okay with Kbin getting the majority of users, as long as we're able to federate with each other it doesn't really matter where the new people go
Speaking of that, we (lemmy peeps) are going to be able to subscribe/see kbin magazines soon, right? I know we can subscribe, but we can't search them and when we bring them up specifically by @URL in my lemmy instance, they show up as empty for me.
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