▲ 47 ▼ Reddit exodus - Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon (vijayprema.com) submitted 3 years ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social 40 comments fedilink hide all child comments Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.
[–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago (9 children) @Arotrios had a really good post about some of the stuff you can do with kbin to follow other communities or even entire instances across the fediverse. permalink fedilink source hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (8 children) Hmm that link seems to be broken for me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (7 children) Still works for me. You can search by the post title: YSK that Kbin can subscribe not only to magazines and communities, but entire instances. It was on m/kbinMeta permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (6 children) I'm on lemmy.world, do you know if Lemmy has the same functionality? Still new to this permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (5 children) Same here! I don't think it's exactly the same on lemmy -- you can't seem to sub to an entire instance, for example -- but there's at least some similar capability. For instance, I'm on kbin right now, so when I click your user name I go to a kbin version of your lemmy.world profile page: https://kbin.social/u/@SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world. It has the option to block or follow you, which should show your posts in my kbin feed. As far as I know, Lemmy can't do the same with kbin users. I haven't found a way to follow other lemmy users either, except on kbin. But on lemmy you can sub to lemmy or kbin communities, even if they're on other instances. On lemmy.world, RedditMigration has the address https://lemmy.world/c/RedditMigration@kbin.social. So it seems to be a community there that just pulls in from the original at https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration@kbin.social. (No idea why it's like this.) So if your main instances was, say, beehaw.org, you would search for !RedditMigration and you'd see that community pop up in the results. You can subscribe to it that way and it would be in your subs list on beehaw. The same should be true of kbin magazines/communities. It looks like each community on lemmy has their address posted next to the subscription box, so you can paste it into your lemmy.world search and sub to anything you want regardless which instance it's on. In theory this is going to work (maybe?) with other fedi services like Mastodon, but I suspect the admins and devs have to build a lot of things, so it may not be around for awhile. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (4 children) Thanks very much for your informative reply. Yeah I'm hoping that lemmy adds the functionality to follow people, though I might sign up to Kbin and see how that side fairs out for me. Kbin does seem to have slightly better fediverse integration. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (3 children) What i've noticed is that each one is lacking something. I kind of like the layout of lemmy a bit more, but it doesn't have the same capability of following people or communities from all over, and I don't think you can follow users at all like in kbin and Mastodon. But kbin doesn't have any way that I can find to save posts, which is something use a lot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Oh that's interesting as in Lemmy you can save posts and comments. I can across an app called fedilab which integrates Mastodon, pixelfed, and a couple other fediverse...communities/instances?, Not sure what they're known as, across one account. If that app manages to integrate Lemmy/Kbin it would a game changer for me. Is Kbin just a web app or do you know if there are any Android apps that access Kbin? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago There aren’t any kbin apps yet, but there are a few in development. The one furthest along is Artemis, and it’s in closed beta testing. @ArtemisApp permalink fedilink source parent [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago I don't think there's an app-app yet. I've read on here that kbin is fairly new, while lemmy has been around a lot longer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (8 children) Hmm that link seems to be broken for me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (7 children) Still works for me. You can search by the post title: YSK that Kbin can subscribe not only to magazines and communities, but entire instances. It was on m/kbinMeta permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (6 children) I'm on lemmy.world, do you know if Lemmy has the same functionality? Still new to this permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (5 children) Same here! I don't think it's exactly the same on lemmy -- you can't seem to sub to an entire instance, for example -- but there's at least some similar capability. For instance, I'm on kbin right now, so when I click your user name I go to a kbin version of your lemmy.world profile page: https://kbin.social/u/@SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world. It has the option to block or follow you, which should show your posts in my kbin feed. As far as I know, Lemmy can't do the same with kbin users. I haven't found a way to follow other lemmy users either, except on kbin. But on lemmy you can sub to lemmy or kbin communities, even if they're on other instances. On lemmy.world, RedditMigration has the address https://lemmy.world/c/RedditMigration@kbin.social. So it seems to be a community there that just pulls in from the original at https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration@kbin.social. (No idea why it's like this.) So if your main instances was, say, beehaw.org, you would search for !RedditMigration and you'd see that community pop up in the results. You can subscribe to it that way and it would be in your subs list on beehaw. The same should be true of kbin magazines/communities. It looks like each community on lemmy has their address posted next to the subscription box, so you can paste it into your lemmy.world search and sub to anything you want regardless which instance it's on. In theory this is going to work (maybe?) with other fedi services like Mastodon, but I suspect the admins and devs have to build a lot of things, so it may not be around for awhile. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (4 children) Thanks very much for your informative reply. Yeah I'm hoping that lemmy adds the functionality to follow people, though I might sign up to Kbin and see how that side fairs out for me. Kbin does seem to have slightly better fediverse integration. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (3 children) What i've noticed is that each one is lacking something. I kind of like the layout of lemmy a bit more, but it doesn't have the same capability of following people or communities from all over, and I don't think you can follow users at all like in kbin and Mastodon. But kbin doesn't have any way that I can find to save posts, which is something use a lot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Oh that's interesting as in Lemmy you can save posts and comments. I can across an app called fedilab which integrates Mastodon, pixelfed, and a couple other fediverse...communities/instances?, Not sure what they're known as, across one account. If that app manages to integrate Lemmy/Kbin it would a game changer for me. Is Kbin just a web app or do you know if there are any Android apps that access Kbin? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago There aren’t any kbin apps yet, but there are a few in development. The one furthest along is Artemis, and it’s in closed beta testing. @ArtemisApp permalink fedilink source parent [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago I don't think there's an app-app yet. I've read on here that kbin is fairly new, while lemmy has been around a lot longer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (7 children) Still works for me. You can search by the post title: YSK that Kbin can subscribe not only to magazines and communities, but entire instances. It was on m/kbinMeta permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (6 children) I'm on lemmy.world, do you know if Lemmy has the same functionality? Still new to this permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (5 children) Same here! I don't think it's exactly the same on lemmy -- you can't seem to sub to an entire instance, for example -- but there's at least some similar capability. For instance, I'm on kbin right now, so when I click your user name I go to a kbin version of your lemmy.world profile page: https://kbin.social/u/@SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world. It has the option to block or follow you, which should show your posts in my kbin feed. As far as I know, Lemmy can't do the same with kbin users. I haven't found a way to follow other lemmy users either, except on kbin. But on lemmy you can sub to lemmy or kbin communities, even if they're on other instances. On lemmy.world, RedditMigration has the address https://lemmy.world/c/RedditMigration@kbin.social. So it seems to be a community there that just pulls in from the original at https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration@kbin.social. (No idea why it's like this.) So if your main instances was, say, beehaw.org, you would search for !RedditMigration and you'd see that community pop up in the results. You can subscribe to it that way and it would be in your subs list on beehaw. The same should be true of kbin magazines/communities. It looks like each community on lemmy has their address posted next to the subscription box, so you can paste it into your lemmy.world search and sub to anything you want regardless which instance it's on. In theory this is going to work (maybe?) with other fedi services like Mastodon, but I suspect the admins and devs have to build a lot of things, so it may not be around for awhile. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (4 children) Thanks very much for your informative reply. Yeah I'm hoping that lemmy adds the functionality to follow people, though I might sign up to Kbin and see how that side fairs out for me. Kbin does seem to have slightly better fediverse integration. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (3 children) What i've noticed is that each one is lacking something. I kind of like the layout of lemmy a bit more, but it doesn't have the same capability of following people or communities from all over, and I don't think you can follow users at all like in kbin and Mastodon. But kbin doesn't have any way that I can find to save posts, which is something use a lot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Oh that's interesting as in Lemmy you can save posts and comments. I can across an app called fedilab which integrates Mastodon, pixelfed, and a couple other fediverse...communities/instances?, Not sure what they're known as, across one account. If that app manages to integrate Lemmy/Kbin it would a game changer for me. Is Kbin just a web app or do you know if there are any Android apps that access Kbin? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago There aren’t any kbin apps yet, but there are a few in development. The one furthest along is Artemis, and it’s in closed beta testing. @ArtemisApp permalink fedilink source parent [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago I don't think there's an app-app yet. I've read on here that kbin is fairly new, while lemmy has been around a lot longer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (6 children) I'm on lemmy.world, do you know if Lemmy has the same functionality? Still new to this permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (5 children) Same here! I don't think it's exactly the same on lemmy -- you can't seem to sub to an entire instance, for example -- but there's at least some similar capability. For instance, I'm on kbin right now, so when I click your user name I go to a kbin version of your lemmy.world profile page: https://kbin.social/u/@SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world. It has the option to block or follow you, which should show your posts in my kbin feed. As far as I know, Lemmy can't do the same with kbin users. I haven't found a way to follow other lemmy users either, except on kbin. But on lemmy you can sub to lemmy or kbin communities, even if they're on other instances. On lemmy.world, RedditMigration has the address https://lemmy.world/c/RedditMigration@kbin.social. So it seems to be a community there that just pulls in from the original at https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration@kbin.social. (No idea why it's like this.) So if your main instances was, say, beehaw.org, you would search for !RedditMigration and you'd see that community pop up in the results. You can subscribe to it that way and it would be in your subs list on beehaw. The same should be true of kbin magazines/communities. It looks like each community on lemmy has their address posted next to the subscription box, so you can paste it into your lemmy.world search and sub to anything you want regardless which instance it's on. In theory this is going to work (maybe?) with other fedi services like Mastodon, but I suspect the admins and devs have to build a lot of things, so it may not be around for awhile. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (4 children) Thanks very much for your informative reply. Yeah I'm hoping that lemmy adds the functionality to follow people, though I might sign up to Kbin and see how that side fairs out for me. Kbin does seem to have slightly better fediverse integration. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (3 children) What i've noticed is that each one is lacking something. I kind of like the layout of lemmy a bit more, but it doesn't have the same capability of following people or communities from all over, and I don't think you can follow users at all like in kbin and Mastodon. But kbin doesn't have any way that I can find to save posts, which is something use a lot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Oh that's interesting as in Lemmy you can save posts and comments. I can across an app called fedilab which integrates Mastodon, pixelfed, and a couple other fediverse...communities/instances?, Not sure what they're known as, across one account. If that app manages to integrate Lemmy/Kbin it would a game changer for me. Is Kbin just a web app or do you know if there are any Android apps that access Kbin? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago There aren’t any kbin apps yet, but there are a few in development. The one furthest along is Artemis, and it’s in closed beta testing. @ArtemisApp permalink fedilink source parent [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago I don't think there's an app-app yet. I've read on here that kbin is fairly new, while lemmy has been around a lot longer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (5 children) Same here! I don't think it's exactly the same on lemmy -- you can't seem to sub to an entire instance, for example -- but there's at least some similar capability. For instance, I'm on kbin right now, so when I click your user name I go to a kbin version of your lemmy.world profile page: https://kbin.social/u/@SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world. It has the option to block or follow you, which should show your posts in my kbin feed. As far as I know, Lemmy can't do the same with kbin users. I haven't found a way to follow other lemmy users either, except on kbin. But on lemmy you can sub to lemmy or kbin communities, even if they're on other instances. On lemmy.world, RedditMigration has the address https://lemmy.world/c/RedditMigration@kbin.social. So it seems to be a community there that just pulls in from the original at https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration@kbin.social. (No idea why it's like this.) So if your main instances was, say, beehaw.org, you would search for !RedditMigration and you'd see that community pop up in the results. You can subscribe to it that way and it would be in your subs list on beehaw. The same should be true of kbin magazines/communities. It looks like each community on lemmy has their address posted next to the subscription box, so you can paste it into your lemmy.world search and sub to anything you want regardless which instance it's on. In theory this is going to work (maybe?) with other fedi services like Mastodon, but I suspect the admins and devs have to build a lot of things, so it may not be around for awhile. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (4 children) Thanks very much for your informative reply. Yeah I'm hoping that lemmy adds the functionality to follow people, though I might sign up to Kbin and see how that side fairs out for me. Kbin does seem to have slightly better fediverse integration. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (3 children) What i've noticed is that each one is lacking something. I kind of like the layout of lemmy a bit more, but it doesn't have the same capability of following people or communities from all over, and I don't think you can follow users at all like in kbin and Mastodon. But kbin doesn't have any way that I can find to save posts, which is something use a lot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Oh that's interesting as in Lemmy you can save posts and comments. I can across an app called fedilab which integrates Mastodon, pixelfed, and a couple other fediverse...communities/instances?, Not sure what they're known as, across one account. If that app manages to integrate Lemmy/Kbin it would a game changer for me. Is Kbin just a web app or do you know if there are any Android apps that access Kbin? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago There aren’t any kbin apps yet, but there are a few in development. The one furthest along is Artemis, and it’s in closed beta testing. @ArtemisApp permalink fedilink source parent [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago I don't think there's an app-app yet. I've read on here that kbin is fairly new, while lemmy has been around a lot longer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (4 children) Thanks very much for your informative reply. Yeah I'm hoping that lemmy adds the functionality to follow people, though I might sign up to Kbin and see how that side fairs out for me. Kbin does seem to have slightly better fediverse integration. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (3 children) What i've noticed is that each one is lacking something. I kind of like the layout of lemmy a bit more, but it doesn't have the same capability of following people or communities from all over, and I don't think you can follow users at all like in kbin and Mastodon. But kbin doesn't have any way that I can find to save posts, which is something use a lot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Oh that's interesting as in Lemmy you can save posts and comments. I can across an app called fedilab which integrates Mastodon, pixelfed, and a couple other fediverse...communities/instances?, Not sure what they're known as, across one account. If that app manages to integrate Lemmy/Kbin it would a game changer for me. Is Kbin just a web app or do you know if there are any Android apps that access Kbin? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago There aren’t any kbin apps yet, but there are a few in development. The one furthest along is Artemis, and it’s in closed beta testing. @ArtemisApp permalink fedilink source parent [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago I don't think there's an app-app yet. I've read on here that kbin is fairly new, while lemmy has been around a lot longer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (3 children) What i've noticed is that each one is lacking something. I kind of like the layout of lemmy a bit more, but it doesn't have the same capability of following people or communities from all over, and I don't think you can follow users at all like in kbin and Mastodon. But kbin doesn't have any way that I can find to save posts, which is something use a lot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Oh that's interesting as in Lemmy you can save posts and comments. I can across an app called fedilab which integrates Mastodon, pixelfed, and a couple other fediverse...communities/instances?, Not sure what they're known as, across one account. If that app manages to integrate Lemmy/Kbin it would a game changer for me. Is Kbin just a web app or do you know if there are any Android apps that access Kbin? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago There aren’t any kbin apps yet, but there are a few in development. The one furthest along is Artemis, and it’s in closed beta testing. @ArtemisApp permalink fedilink source parent [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago I don't think there's an app-app yet. I've read on here that kbin is fairly new, while lemmy has been around a lot longer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Oh that's interesting as in Lemmy you can save posts and comments. I can across an app called fedilab which integrates Mastodon, pixelfed, and a couple other fediverse...communities/instances?, Not sure what they're known as, across one account. If that app manages to integrate Lemmy/Kbin it would a game changer for me. Is Kbin just a web app or do you know if there are any Android apps that access Kbin? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago There aren’t any kbin apps yet, but there are a few in development. The one furthest along is Artemis, and it’s in closed beta testing. @ArtemisApp permalink fedilink source parent [–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago I don't think there's an app-app yet. I've read on here that kbin is fairly new, while lemmy has been around a lot longer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago There aren’t any kbin apps yet, but there are a few in development. The one furthest along is Artemis, and it’s in closed beta testing. @ArtemisApp permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago I don't think there's an app-app yet. I've read on here that kbin is fairly new, while lemmy has been around a lot longer. permalink fedilink source parent