Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.

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[–] 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (8 children)

    Hmm that link seems to be broken for me.

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  • [–] 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

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  • [–] 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

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 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?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (28 children)

    This is great, but I wish I could see /interact with Mastodon posts from Lemmy.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Iirc, you can follow them from lemmy. Kbin will let you interact because they show up in a special “microblog” area, but I’m not sure how lemmy handles it.

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

    I really need to figure out how to follow lemmy stuff from kbin. When I see ones on the front page that are relevant I'll follow them, but I don't know how to actively seek them out. I'm 38, have worked in tech for over a decade now, and this change makes me feel like a damn boomer lmao. Committed to figuring it out though!

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

    Really you have to use third party tools for discovery. Very hard to discover on kbin outside of the big communities. But I like kbin implementation of the threadiverse the best

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

    Do you have any tool suggestions? Working on getting my version set up on my desktop while I patiently await an iOS app.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (21 children)

    @n3cr0 @stopthatgirl7 So, this comment is a post from my Mastodon instance. Can you see it? If you reply, then you will have interacted with it.

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

    @n3cr0 @stopthatgirl7 ok, I just got a notification that @stopthatgirl7 favourited my post -- I guess you did that my "upvoting" the comment that appeared on Lemmy. This is how mastodon nd lemmy users can interact with each other.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    Only I’m using kbin, not lemmy. Kbin and lemmy handle federation differently, so we’ll have to wait and see when someone on lemmy interacts.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    @stopthatgirl7 @n3cr0 ok, so it's even cooler then -- we are having a conversation across three different platforms: me on mastodon, you on kbin and @n3cr0 on lemmy. Welcome to the #Fediverse!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Plus I can follow all of you from all those instances, over on pixelfed (the Instagram analogue), thought I have zero idea how things federate in that direction as I haven't used pixelfed much yet.

    Dozens of websites all speaking one language behind the scenes!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (7 children)

    turns out I have a pixelfed instance too :-)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (6 children)

    Ok straight up how did you comment from it? I tried with mine before making my comment (cause I was gonna do it from pixelfed like you, but I couldn't figure out in the UI how to get to this convo, just a person.

    Edit: I literally just made an account last night lol

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

    I had to paste a link to your comment in the search bar of my pixelfed instance. I think pixelfed UI isn't as well integrated into the fediverse as other platforms, it takes a bit of mucking around to make it play nicely.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    @matt@pixelfed.teachmaths.org @GeekFTW hmm... pixelfed doesn't seem to be pushing the updates out, or if it does, there is a long delay. I had to get kbin to pull those couple of comments from my pixelfed instance. I don't use pixelfed very much, there could also be something broken in my setup.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    When I paste the link to a comment into pixelfed it just sits and spins on its thumb so things could just be a bit gimpy.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (7 children)

    Thanks. I'm trying it out. ^^

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (5 children)

    Unfortunately, I cannot find a way to follow you via Lemmy. I only found your follow link for Mastodon instances. I can view your posts on Lemmy when clicking on your name. I can also send you a PM or I can block you, but I cannot see or subscribe to your Mastodon contents from Lemmy.

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

    @n3cr0 Here is my mastodon profile on your lemmy instance:

    https://lemmy.world/u/matt@mastodon.teachmaths.org

    You should be able to follow it, message it, etc. (although no guarantees as to quality content 😉 )

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately, options are more limited here.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)
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    @stopthatgirl7 @n3cr0 I quite like kbin -- it is sort of the "swiss army knife" of the fediverse...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Really awesome! Another clear benefit of the fediverse/activitypub.

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