I’m out of the loop.
Kbin is also written in PHP where as Lemmy in Rust, nuff said
Is that why KBin never works for me, but multiple Lemmy instances do? Lol
Probably not the reason. Rust is just more systems level and performant than interpreted PHP
Lol. Love this place. I make a joke, but get an actual explanation in return. Thanks!
Cuz we nerds
Also Lemmy has been kicking around as a hobby project for a couple years. kbin.social, the flagship kbin instance, was first opened in April. They haven’t even made tools for starting new instances easily yet, and went from a few hundred users to tens of thousands of users basically overnight. It’s a miracle that kbin.social is even still running at all.
It is the difference between nginx and apache: two pieces of software that do basically the same thing. With the exception of some naming conventions and UI differences, they are the same and both participate in the community in the same way.
Effectively just two different methods to access the Fediverse. They each have different thought processes on how to do that, and both are at different stages in their development with kbin being the newest of the two.
I’m watching kbin’s development as I really like its intended ability to interface directly with say Mastodon, but as its stands it’s not quite their yet imo.
Kbin’s built in php which makes it less attractive to contribute to imo
Gross
What is lemmy built in?
The backend is Rust, the official frontend is inferno i think.
The Lemmy server is written in Rust, the frontend is Typescript.
Great question. As I’m new to these things too, I forwarded it to ChatGPT 3.5. In summary:
Lemmy is designed for creating and participating in online communities, while Kbin is designed for organizing and sharing knowledge.
Lemmy is more focused on discussions and social interaction, while Kbin is geared towards structured content creation and collaboration.
They seem to have more in common than they differ, especially for users who only read posts, visit links, write comments.
I also heard they are meant to be able to access each other’s content, although that’s currently not working.
Please correct what is wrong, happy to learn.
Yeah that’s totally wrong. Please don’t post chatGPT summaries as a way to fill gaps in your knowledge.
I am not really certain ChatGPT’s analysis here is correct
@Spzi KBin wasn’t even a thing when Chat GPT’s training cut-off date happened.
Federation is having some difficulties currently, mostly due to things overloading or the solutions to the overloading. It’ll get better as there are more instances.
I also heard they are meant to be able to access each other’s content, although that’s currently not working.
I don’t know about Lemmy being able to see Kbin’s content, but I’m posting this from a Kbin instance right now. Most of the posts I see are infact on Lemmy instances.
Both kbin and lemmy utilize parts of the activitypub protocol - a generic way for different social media sites to talk to one another - to make a reddit-like functionality. This means that regardless of whether you are on a server which uses lemmy or kbin, they can access and use each other. The only real difference for users is going to be the UI and that kbin has also used activitypub to give its users some dedicated mircoblogging capabilities (think mastodon). My advice is: if you are only interested in a reddit-like experience then use the one with the UI and community you perfer, but if you want an all-in-one account (and are okay with the added complexity that comes with) kbin is closer to what you want.
