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

    I love kbin but being a one man show and lacking API it was never really going to be the replacement. I am, however, glad to have it as one of a handful of smaller alternatives and a sort of cousin to Lemmy.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If it doesn't have an API, how do I still see posts from it in my feed? Do you mean it integrates with the fediverse, but only has a web interface for now (ie. no apps)?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the latter. There is an API, but I think it was only released in the last month or so. I'm not sure to what extent it's complete.

    A kbin instance can be downloaded as a PWA, and it works decent.

    As for third party apps there's Lunar, iOS only. Haven't tried it.

    There was also Artemis. It had the best UI/UX design I've ever seen. Unfortunately the dev appears to have vanished.

    Before the API, I think they were web scraping.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's definitely not true, they had an API back in September when I looked into adding support for it

    They didn't have an sdk, but the API most certainly has been around for a while

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're correct. I misunderstood. The API has indeed been around for a while.

    The main instance (kbin.social) only started using it around a month ago: https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog/t/642285/kbin-RTR-19-Summary-of-current-work-and-plans-for-the

    Apologies for the confusion.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Ah... That I didn't know, I read through the documentation to see how hard it would be, but I never tried to use it

    If that's true, I see your point... That's not nearly as bad as not having an API, but it's still a deal breaker

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