Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.

Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.

  • brainfreeze
    5•10 months ago

    @Arotrios had a really good post about some of the stuff you can do with kbin to follow other communities or even entire instances across the fediverse.

      • brainfreeze
        1•10 months ago

        Still works for me. You can search by the post title:

        YSK that Kbin can subscribe not only to magazines and communities, but entire instances.

        It was on m/kbinMeta

          • brainfreeze
            1•10 months ago

            Same here!

            I don’t think it’s exactly the same on lemmy – you can’t seem to sub to an entire instance, for example – but there’s at least some similar capability.

            For instance, I’m on kbin right now, so when I click your user name I go to a kbin version of your lemmy.world profile page: https://kbin.social/u/@SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world. It has the option to block or follow you, which should show your posts in my kbin feed. As far as I know, Lemmy can’t do the same with kbin users. I haven’t found a way to follow other lemmy users either, except on kbin.

            But on lemmy you can sub to lemmy or kbin communities, even if they’re on other instances. On lemmy.world, RedditMigration has the address https://lemmy.world/c/RedditMigration@kbin.social. So it seems to be a community there that just pulls in from the original at https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration@kbin.social. (No idea why it’s like this.)

            So if your main instances was, say, beehaw.org, you would search for !RedditMigration and you’d see that community pop up in the results. You can subscribe to it that way and it would be in your subs list on beehaw. The same should be true of kbin magazines/communities.

            It looks like each community on lemmy has their address posted next to the subscription box, so you can paste it into your lemmy.world search and sub to anything you want regardless which instance it’s on.

            In theory this is going to work (maybe?) with other fedi services like Mastodon, but I suspect the admins and devs have to build a lot of things, so it may not be around for awhile.

            • @SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world
              1•10 months ago

              Thanks very much for your informative reply. Yeah I’m hoping that lemmy adds the functionality to follow people, though I might sign up to Kbin and see how that side fairs out for me. Kbin does seem to have slightly better fediverse integration.

              • brainfreeze
                1•10 months ago

                What i’ve noticed is that each one is lacking something. I kind of like the layout of lemmy a bit more, but it doesn’t have the same capability of following people or communities from all over, and I don’t think you can follow users at all like in kbin and Mastodon. But kbin doesn’t have any way that I can find to save posts, which is something use a lot.

                • @SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world
                  1•10 months ago

                  Oh that’s interesting as in Lemmy you can save posts and comments. I can across an app called fedilab which integrates Mastodon, pixelfed, and a couple other fediverse…communities/instances?, Not sure what they’re known as, across one account. If that app manages to integrate Lemmy/Kbin it would a game changer for me.

                  Is Kbin just a web app or do you know if there are any Android apps that access Kbin?

  • N3Cr0
    3•10 months ago

    This is great, but I wish I could see /interact with Mastodon posts from Lemmy.

    • stopthatgirl7OP
      13•10 months ago

      Iirc, you can follow them from lemmy. Kbin will let you interact because they show up in a special “microblog” area, but I’m not sure how lemmy handles it.

      • bettyspaghetti
        3•10 months ago

        I really need to figure out how to follow lemmy stuff from kbin. When I see ones on the front page that are relevant I’ll follow them, but I don’t know how to actively seek them out. I’m 38, have worked in tech for over a decade now, and this change makes me feel like a damn boomer lmao. Committed to figuring it out though!

        • Marks
          4•10 months ago

          Really you have to use third party tools for discovery. Very hard to discover on kbin outside of the big communities. But I like kbin implementation of the threadiverse the best

        • stopthatgirl7OP
          5•10 months ago

          Only I’m using kbin, not lemmy. Kbin and lemmy handle federation differently, so we’ll have to wait and see when someone on lemmy interacts.

            • GeekFTW
              3•10 months ago

              Plus I can follow all of you from all those instances, over on pixelfed (the Instagram analogue), thought I have zero idea how things federate in that direction as I haven’t used pixelfed much yet.

              Dozens of websites all speaking one language behind the scenes!

                • GeekFTW
                  1•10 months ago

                  Ok straight up how did you comment from it? I tried with mine before making my comment (cause I was gonna do it from pixelfed like you, but I couldn’t figure out in the UI how to get to this convo, just a person.

                  Edit: I literally just made an account last night lol