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ELI5: What's the differences between Lemmy and kbin? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by meteorswarm@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I'm out of the loop.

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[-] shadowtux@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago

Is this only some kbin instances thing or all kbin instances thing? I'm fairly sure that fedia.io (/kbin instance) does not use cloudflare. But that would definitely explain why I'm struggling to search some instances that might use it.

[-] communist@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

As far as i'm aware it's only the main kbin instance.

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

but (as far as i can tell) kbin is way more centralized than lemmy, so it has a large effect

[-] yozul@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

kbin being more centralized is just an unfortunate accident of timing. I was only first publicly released two months ago, and from what I understand there's still not much help available for starting up a new instance of your own, and the lone developer over there has been busy trying not to let the kbin.social server catch fire.

[-] communist@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

It's not at all, they're just having tech issues right now.

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

ah. do you know where i can find a list of all the kbin instances?

[-] sleepisajokeanyway@kbin.run 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list

Here's a list I used to find kbin.run, it's a little barebones right now but the UI is really familiar as someone who used Reddit a lot. It is mostly centralized to kbin.social right now, as more instances pop up and the main instance fixes federation it should sort itself out as long as it keeps momentum.