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codepy ,

Kbin is also written in PHP where as Lemmy in Rust, nuff said

Klinkertinlegs ,

Is that why KBin never works for me, but multiple Lemmy instances do? Lol

codepy ,

Probably not the reason. Rust is just more systems level and performant than interpreted PHP

Klinkertinlegs ,

Lol. Love this place. I make a joke, but get an actual explanation in return. Thanks!

catacomb ,

ELI5? McDonald’s and Burger King. One has a Big Mac, the other a Whopper. One has red and yellow, the other red and blue. Either way, you’re getting a burger.

Oh, they’re also right next to each other so you can wave to the people in Burger King from McDonald’s and vice versa. Now everyone is enjoying burgers together.

ada ,
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

lemmy is the more mature platform, whilst kbin is newer and more feature rich.

What it amounts to is that kbin can do things that lemmy can’t do, but the things that they both do, lemmy tends to do better. And as kbin is effectively in alpha at the moment, it doesn’t have much documentation, making installation and configuration a challenge.

The biggest point of difference in features is that kbin is aware of other fediverse content in a way lemmy isn’t. kbin and lemmy both talk to each other really well, but kbin also natively supports other types of fediverse groups (gup.pe, friendica and chirp). kbin also lets you see non threadiverse content, by attaching hashtags to groups. So if you set up say a cycling group on kbin, you can also make the group watch the tag, any any mastodon or other micoblogging content will appear on a special tab in your cycling group.

redditcandoone ,

So if you set up say a cycling group on kbin, you can also make the group watch the tag, any any mastodon or other micoblogging content will appear on a special tab in your cycling group.

Now that is a powerful feature. Great way to fill a feed with content too.

EthicalAI ,

I think that will have me switch eventually, but it sucks its php.

concrete_baby ,

Lemmy and kbin are two different forum software that can be installed and run on servers. Because both use the ActivityPub protocol, the content between them can be shared. So, a Lemmy user will be able to see content from a server running kbin, using Lemmy.

rist097 ,

But how can I see kbin content from lemmy, I couldnt find an option yet. Also from kbin I cannot find lemmy communities

communist ,
@communist@beehaw.org avatar

There isn’t an option, you can’t even tell but you already have the kbin content.

You can’t disable it.

The reason that’s happening right now is because kbin is enacting ddos protection using cloudflare so they aren’t federating properly, this is a temporary problem.

shadowtux ,
@shadowtux@fedia.io avatar

Is this only some kbin instances thing or all kbin instances thing? I'm fairly sure that fedia.io (/kbin instance) does not use cloudflare. But that would definitely explain why I'm struggling to search some instances that might use it.

communist ,
@communist@beehaw.org avatar

As far as i’m aware it’s only the main kbin instance.

1993_toyota_camry ,
@1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org avatar

but (as far as i can tell) kbin is way more centralized than lemmy, so it has a large effect

communist ,
@communist@beehaw.org avatar

It’s not at all, they’re just having tech issues right now.

1993_toyota_camry ,
@1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org avatar

ah. do you know where i can find a list of all the kbin instances?

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