CodingAndCoffeeJun 14, 2023

YSK that the kbin.social is now federating, adding hundreds of communities and ~26k more users content

https://lemmy.world/post/139212

YSK that kbin.social is now federating, adding hundreds of communities and ~26k more users content - Lemmy.world

Because they don’t get listed by browse.feddit.de [http://browse.feddit.de] you’ll want to browse https://kbin.social/magazines [https://kbin.social/magazines] to browse “magazines”, which is what they call communities e.g. [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] or directly, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration] Why YSK: Federation literally just synched up thanks to the tireless efforts by @[email protected] [/u/[email protected]] over the past few days.

Show threadlilkevJun 14, 2023

@CodingAndCoffee So you're saying I can reply to this from Mastodon also?

EDIT: please reply if you see this from kbin/lemmy 😅

Show thread31dirty1
I thought mastodon was a “twitter” like site… how would you be viewing Lemmy stuff?
Jun 15, 2023 at 2:20amWeb
Show threadlilkevJun 15, 2023

It IS a Twitter-like site. It displays posts in more of a Twitter style. That being said - it is also part of the Fediverse, so theoretically you should be able to see all federated communities on any fediverse instance of your choosing.

Personally, I have a kbin.social account and a mastodon.social account. I'm doing this because Mastodon doesn't really present threads from kbin or lemmy in an easily digestable way, so I will use kbin as my reddit replacement, and Mastodon to replace Twitter.

Show thread31dirty1Jun 15, 2023
So if I had the mastodon app, is there anything I can do with that? Or what would you be signed into to reply back? (Ie) I’m signed into my lemmy.fmhy.ml account, where would I sign into mastodon… tho, I’d like to create another instance to use more like my previous Reddit account
Show threadlilkevJun 15, 2023

So you would have to sign up for a Mastodon instance to log on to the Mastodon app (I.e. Mastodon.social, mstdn.social, mstdn.es, etc). Similar to the fact that you're signed in to a Lemmy instance right now on lemmy.fmhy.com there are other Lemmy instances such as lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, Beehaw.org, etc.

Your Mastodon account would be completely separate from your Lemmy account.

Does that make sense? Not sure if I explained that we'll.

Show thread31dirty1Jun 15, 2023

It makes sense they are separate, but I’m just not following the part where you’d sign in the mastodon app… (when to me it acts like twitter)

I do have a mastodon account btw

Show threadlilkevJun 15, 2023

You can't sign in to a Lemmy instance from Mastodon, if that's what you mean.

But when you go to sign in to a Mastodon account on the Mastodon app, it should prompt you for the instance you're signed up for (or recommend you instances if you aren't signed up already).

If you mean being able to find Lemmy communities, you would simply search for something like [email protected] in the search bar. Different Lemmy communities show as "Users" for me, at least on the Ivory for Mastodon app.

Show threadlilkevJun 15, 2023
Similarly, I can find your Lemmy.fmhy.ml account on Mastodon by searching for "[email protected]"
Show thread31dirty1Jun 15, 2023
That makes more sense thank you!
Show threadlilkevJun 15, 2023
By the way, I'm replying to you from Mastodon!