Love Reddit but tired of what's happening to it? We check out Lemmy and Kbin, two open-source fediverse alternatives that are growing fast.

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[–] 17 points 3 years ago

A thorough, consumer-facing breakdown by a major tech news site? I think we're moving up in the world...

Though I wish they would've added a couple more paragraphs going into the data privacy/security concerns that some people have. I guess the average consumer isn't particularly bothered these days, kinda gotten used to it. Would've been nice though.

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

    Good article, this person federates.

    I don't get why the author seems to be saying we can't see lists of lemmy communities from kbin, though.

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

    From kbin- how do you see a list of communities on lemmy.world? I've been navigating to https://lemmy.world/communities in a separate browser window to discover communities to individually search/subscribe to from kbin.

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

    Go to https://kbin.social/magazines and turn on local and federated, then hit the search button. For some reason all the top "hot" are kbin but the "new" and "active" are various.

    Then if you specifically want, say, lemmy.world, type that into the search field and hit search again. It will all show.

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

    This shows the lemmy.world communities that are already federated to my instance. Its not a full list.

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

    True, but searching from a Lemmy instance will still only show you the ones which that one instance knows about. (I think?)

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

    Click on the tab Magazines at the top, select local and federate, put lemmy.world in the search box to see all lemmy.world communities. If you want to check for community with certain keywords you can try putting [keyword]@lemmy.world. It can search for the keyword in both the name and description, but not extensive as if you'd search on lemmy.world.

    This can use some improvement, but it's not a Kbin problem though, since Lemmy is even worse when it comes to searching for communities outside each instance.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Edit: this just shows me the lemmy.world magazines that are federated to my instance

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Ah, I see what you mean now. In that case I don't think you can do it on Kbin natively rn. There is this website though, which might help a bit. At least imo it's easier to use. https://lemmyverse.net/communities

    You can just filter for only lemmy.world. When you find a community you want to join you'll have to type the handle of the community in the search icon to the right rather than in the Magazine tab for communities that doesn't already have a copy on your instance.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Best by far.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Best article I've read about Kbin/Lemmy in mainstream media. Kudos to the author.

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

    @Hairyblue Thanks for this. Who thought that this year would be the one Reddit and Twitter get down the road and f*ck up its community?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Probably the best article about the subject I've read on the "mainstream" media.

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