Lately I often read about kbin.social being similar to lemmy but more accessible. So I created an account there to check it out. My experience so far is a little mixed. From kbin I can access all Lemmy posts, although I find the interface less intuitive to join new communities. So from the kbin side it feels like an other Lemmy instance.

But when searching for kbin from this Lemmy Account, I do not find much. I feel like I am missing some basic concept, that makes it pretty clear. Why this is such a one way experience.

So now I am wondering: How does this work, what are the difference, what do both sites have in common?

  • Milan@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    But when searching for kbin from this Lemmy Account, I do not find much. I feel like I am missing some basic concept, that makes it pretty clear. Why this is such a one way experience.

    Not sure if i understand correctly, but instances can only show you what they are aware of. This does not really depend on the underlaying software (unless it is specialized, like PeerTube maybe).

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      1 year ago

      Is there a reason why instances couldn’t just index and show all the communities from other federated instances?

      Right now you have to do this to add a community from another instance:

      • Visit it, look in communities, copy the link to the community
      • Go back to the instance you were, paste link into search box and hit enter, then click the link, open sidebar, and click subscribe.

      I don’t see why instances couldn’t just have an index over communities on all federated instances, so it’s a one click action to subscribe to any community in the entire Lemmy fediverse.

      If this was implemented it would lower the bar for new users enormously, and encourage a lot more cross instance subscriptions.