Mastodawn

o_o Jun 22, 2023

Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous

Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous - programming.dev

Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think. Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?

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Mirror_I_rorrIMG Jun 22, 2023

Im sorry for the stupid question but can someone explain the difference between lemmy and Kbin?

I just recently created a kbin account and downloaded the kbin app but see a lot about lemmy on here. Is kbin a subset of lemmy? If I want a wider variety of content would I go to lemmy or kbin?

Again, sorry for the stupid question.

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thegiddystitcher

You got some fairly techy responses to this question but just from an actually-using-things pov:

Yes they're different softwares, yes they can talk to each other (mostly) fine. On Kbin your topic-focused discussion groups are "magazines" and over here on Lemmy we call them "communities". I can sub to Kbin magazines from here on Lemmy, and you can sub to Lemmy communities too! So it's functionally a shared pool of content and discussion, even though technically it's two different platforms :)

There's a really useful tool for browsing Lemmy communities by keyword here: lemmyverse.net/communities that you may or may not find easier than searching through the Kbin magazine list.