One thing I don’t get right now, is how kbin/lemmy interact with each other?

When I subscribe to /m/technology here on kbin, do I get to see /c/technology posts from lemmy and can interact with them from within kbin? Or would I need to separately subscribe somewhere, or even register a new account on lemmy?

Also, If they’re automatically federated, then how does it work with /m/askkbin and /c/asklemmy, both with different names.

Thanks!

  • wjrii@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yup, but you only need the one website, and while the benefits of federation are not fully realized right now – and frankly it doesn’t seem like it’s going to evolve quite how the original devs imagined it – it does mean less content goes away if one site goes off the rails.

    • adonis@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      yeah, I’m already a little bit familiar with the fediverse, and I understand that I can do everything from within one website. The only thing I wasn’t sure about, was, whether there was some automatic merging of the identical communities.

      I’m really excited to see where all of this goes, especially now, after the self-destruction of the two big platforms. Sure, some things might still be a bit rough around the edges, but considering all of this happened so quickly, it’s already more than usable.

      I could even imagine people to start moving away even before a platform destructs itself, like YouTube.

      • wjrii@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t personally know of anything, but us reddit refugees have been mentioning it for a while, so I’m sure that Lemmy and Kbin devs know that some of us would like it, and frankly with the number of “general” instancecs that have popped up, I think it’s more in line with how people are actually going to use the Threadiverse. I think it’ll eventually show up in Lemmy, Kbin, or a fork, but it could be a while, and IMHO it’s a low priority until user numbers make navigation more unwieldy.