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What's the best way to get rid of a body... theoretically?
Own a pig farm.
Apparently they go through bone like buttah!
Be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm!
This is the correct answer…I’ve heard…
Take my shameless upvote
theoretically
I got scared until you said this, ofc any question is fine as long as it is hypothetical.
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!
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 :)
I’m on VLemmy! 👋
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…
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.
Kbin is a different software from Lemmy but both use activitypub and so can communicate to each other with little issue
Kbin is a separate application that is like lemmy and they can communicate with each other, as in view each other's content.
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.
You are participating on a kbin thread right now, kbin is basically another lemmy but because they speak the same language we can communicate.
Hi. Welcome to kbin. There is a bit of a learning curve. There is a bit of jank, but to be honest? You made the right call.
What's Reddit? /jk but Kbin is so nice. I am actually having conversations with people instead of just post that seem to exist in a weird void.
I'm not quite having conversations, but I'm posting comments on the internet for the first time in years.
Same boat! The last 5 years of my Reddit usage was 100% anonymous, sign out out of any account using the Apollo app. But when I joined the fediverse, something about it got me back into the swing of posting and voting.
I really like the UI kbin has. Don't have to worry about old.reddit being removed one day either.
Right? I liked reddit, but old.reddit was imperfect at best, and needed RES. New reddit was always an unusable hot mess. Kbin is like three weeks old and it's already better than both ever were.
* Waves vigorously *
Try not to get overwhelmed by things here. There's an added layer of complexity that exists, due to the space being made up of a whole bunch of different websites, but you'll grok it in time if you just absorb things slowly.
Things are still new around here. kbin itself is still in early beta. There are kinks to work out. But everything's in active development, and things will get polished :)
boom. eat shit spez
I moved over a little more than a week ago and honestly the improvements here have already come a long way. I am really enjoying it and have zero issue fully replacing Reddit with the Fediverse.
Hello from Lemmy!
Hell ya
For me, Lemmy is the girl in blue. But I prefer browsing Lemmy communities through kbin. So I'm still loyal.
Here's a fake award for your post since I'm not buying fake awards from The Flaming Alien anymore 🏆
Lemmy Silver lol
oldie but goodie
You're now closer to 2050 than you are to 1990, fyi!
Hey you, shut up lol
Excellent use of these meme. That is all.
Welcome! Make yourself at home :)
Welcome! Make sure to post whatever you want and comment whatever you want! :)
Who's downvoting this lol
Like it's getting hard ratio'd because it's a good meme, but I'm curious as to why 13 people (so far?) are upset about it.
I think that's just the internet. I think some people just go through their feed downvoting everything.
Hell yeah! Welcome aboard!