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Is Lemmy THE reddit alternative for you? Are you thinking about moving somewhere else? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[+] 34 points 3 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (15 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    I still don’t really understand the difference in Lemmy and Kbin.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago* (12 children)

    Kbin is host for both Lemmy + Mastadon (a federated twitter replacement) where you interact over both with the same login/username.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Thanks! So I guess the question I have now is why would I not move to Kbin if that means I get two services for one account?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    I mean you can do whatever you want. The fediverse is provided as a free service by a bunch of hosts. It not like hosts are offering competing services.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    So, I'm still confused with Instances and how usernames interact with different Instances. I hear there's different content on different Instances, but I'm not sure if I need a new username to log in there, or if I just don't know how to log in using my lemmy.world username.

    I hope I'm not too rambly. I'm getting used to the jargon and a little confused.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    An instance is like your email provider.

    You can (mostly) email anyone at any email address on any provider, but you still need a username and password to log in to your webmail.

    With lemmy, you can read and comment on any community, and respond to any user.

    e.g. You are from lemmy.world, this community is hosted on lemmy.world, but I'm from lemmy.one

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Brooooooooooooooo

    Thank you. I've been letting the instance concept just kind of float by undetected figuring I didn't need to understand it to navigate it I suppose. But I much prefer to understand :) thanks for the concise wording

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  • [+] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Mastodon uses the boost button as well. I think it’s similar to an upvote, it just kind of helps the post get more attention. Since kbin is a kind of hybrid of mastodon and Lemmy, it uses both the upvote/downvote buttons and boost button. I’m not sure if boosting Lemmy posts does anything though. I haven’t used kbin or mastodon very much so some of my info may be incorrect.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I don't know either, but as long as federation works between them, it makes no difference to me. I follow communities on both from one Friendica account. If I decide to self host one day, I'll choose one based on the software stack.

    This, to me, is the marvelous power of federation.

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