• f4te@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

      can someone explain to me the difference between kbin and Lemmy before we get too far into this and I’m too scared to ask

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        They’re different programs that do the same thing and communicate with the same protocol. Some servers run Lemmy, others run kbin. They have slightly different featuresets (afaik kbin integrates some microblogging functionality in addition to threaded comments and link aggregation) but it’s really a matter of preference.

      • OwenEverbinde@reddthat.com
        8·
        1 year ago

        I’m a little lost myself, so take this with a grain of salt, but…

        kbin has more complete microblogging integration. I don’t understand what it looks like or feels like, but here on Lemmy, I believe you can only post URLs-to and screenshots-of Mastodon posts. Not the posts themselves.

        The ActivityPub protocol underneath Mastodon and Lemmy technically supports that kind of interoperability. That’s why Mastodon users can comment on Lemmy posts and on Lemmy comments. But Lemmy has not yet adopted that feature. As far as I know.

        kbin has.

        As far as I can tell by reading the Redditor’s guide to how Kbin works (your what/how-to guide) over on reddit, it appears that microblogging posts can be made from within kbin.

        Which makes kbin a combination twitter/reddit. And it makes Lemmy a “reddit, but twitter users can find our posts and comment on them using their Twitter account in such a way so that they’re visible even to us Lemmy users, and boost our comments and posts to their followers.”

        • f4te@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          great explanation, the relation to the brand-name platforms really helps. thank you.

      • ninchuka@lemmy.one
        3·
        1 year ago

        They both talk the same protocol but are different softwares mainly different UI’s really I think

  • randint@feddit.nl
    14·
    1 year ago

    Great! I wonder if Reddit will forcibly reopen r/AccidentalRenaissance like they said in their press release during the blackout.

  • Pixlbabble@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    So is that redundancy accounts in case a server goes down or did they not know kbin and lemmy are federated?

    • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Probably they don’t know how the fediverse works, but that’s fine for now at least they moved here

    • VoltasPistol@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      1 year ago

      We didn’t like how either handled images when we first signed up, and having been burned before? We decided to make two and maybe we’ll consolidate them later.

  • VoltasPistol@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    822·
    1 year ago

    Oh damn, that’s us!!

    We’d wondered where the nearly 1.9k subscribers came from completely out of nowhere!

    So, yeah, a lot of people are hating on us for creating one of Kbin and one on Lemmy, but we had our reasons: Basically, neither handled images very well and we saw that these two services did basically the same thing and that typically leads to the weaker project getting cancelled down the line, so we decided our safest bet was just to make one of each, just in case. Better safe than sorry.

    We might consolidate them later, but for now just pick whichever you like best. :)

    • Revan343@lemmy.ca
      211·
      1 year ago

      Just want to say, “it’s been swell, but the swelling’s gone down” is a fantastic turn of phrase that I will be stealing

    • Openmindedskeptic@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      1 year ago

      To add to that, there was a bit of a time limit in which we had reason to believe we needed to secure the name so that it wouldn’t be taken by certain persons and then just sat upon with no activity.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Are you going to merge/consolidate the topics/posts from each of the two servers with each other, or just keep two sets of posts/topics, one on each server?

      • VoltasPistol@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        18·
        1 year ago

        It wasn’t the way images uploaded, it was more that kbin’s image previews absolutely skullfucked the aspect ratio of anything that wasn’t roughly in a 3:4 aspect ratio, making a bunch of deeply touching photos look like goofy funhouse mirrors.

        We were like, “Shit… Is… Is this on purpose? Are the people behind kbin some kind of weirdos who believe in 3:4 aspect ratio supremacy??” so we thought, “Eh… Maybe we’d better make a Lemmy too, in case kbin doesn’t figure their shit out”.

        Because, honestly? Our faith in humanity was at an all-time low and we were running out of time before people began leaving reddit for new platforms. Throw everything against the wall and see what sticks, right?

        • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOP
          51·
          1 year ago

          It wasn’t the way images uploaded, it was more that kbin’s image previews absolutely skullfucked the aspect ratio of anything that wasn’t roughly in a 3:4 aspect ratio, making a bunch of deeply touching photos look like goofy funhouse mirrors.

          I can only suggest to use mobile app. So far I don’t see any problem with image handling on mobile app. On desktop and mobile browser you might want to use voyager https://vger.app

      • VoltasPistol@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        5·
        1 year ago

        We probably wouldn’t delete it, just leave a link at the top explaining we’ve migrated and lock it so it isn’t accepting new posts.

        I wouldn’t want someone who submitted a treasured photo and got a bunch of positive feedback to lose it forever in the name of ruthless efficiency.

            • Bucky@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 year ago

              Well I didn’t make that, I found it. Reddit used to have a bunch of these too. Anyway I saw someone ask the admin of the server to incorporate it and make it available if you went to old.Lemmy.world. He said maybe. @ruud please?

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
    24·
    1 year ago

    Good on them, I was subscribed to that subreddit for the longest time and I’m glad to see they’ve made the transition. I’d love to see r/AskHistorians make the transition too, as that’s an amazing subreddit with great information.

    • DudePluto@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      Hoping that one makes the transition myself. I would also love to see r/AcademicBiblical make the move. It was a great collection of resources and academic-level discussion of ancient judeo-christian religion. I mod three communities right now, and c/BiblicalStudies at !biblicalstudies@lemmy.world is the only one I made with the hopes of one day handing it off completely to someone with more expertise than me. Doesn’t have to be the reddit mods (I disagree with that idea), just someone better suited for that rigorous of a community

      • Wrench Wizard@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        I loved Academic biblical too! Also I can’t remember the sub name but religious/atheism debates I find intriguing. Oh ofc debate an atheist was one, debate a Christian iirc was another. Would love to see a giant instance that covers debates between all religions and atheism, the noachides, Jewish, Christian’s, Muslims, Buddhists even Hinduism I love all religious debate!

  • dominiquec@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 year ago

    This is the type of movement I’ve been looking forward to. I still visit Reddit but not for Reddit’s sake. I go for the high quality subs with tight moderation and good content that are still on Reddit. Once they move out, there’s no reason to stay on.

    • aelwero@lemmy.ml
      10·
      1 year ago

      I refuse to download their shit, and as such, I have no access to it. I don’t visit reddit on my computer, never have, never will.

      Bacon went tits up at around 7PM pacific for me, and that was that. My last post was a farewell message to one of my subs, and I don’t even know what my last comment was. The baconreader icon still sits on my top 4 buttons at the bottom of my phone screen, and I’ve opened it first thing in the morning once or twice since, but it’s borked, and that’s that. I’ll put a Lemmy reader app there once I decide which one it’s gonna be…

      C’est la fucking vie reddit.

  • AssPennies@lemmy.world
    84·
    1 year ago

    That’s pretty daring of them to do, they’re risking their severance package by so publicly making their former employer look so bad. Oh wait…