this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
47 points (100.0% liked)

/kbin meta

4 readers
1 users here now

Magazine dedicated to discussions about the kbin itself. Provide feedback, ask questions, suggest improvements, and engage in conversations related to the platform organization, policies, features, and community dynamics. ---- * Roadmap 2023 * m/kbinDevlog * m/kbinDesign

founded 1 year ago
47
Why does it seem everything on KBin is from lemmy? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by bdonvr@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
51 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I want to check out KBin, but it literally the whole 1st page, the top 25 posts, were all from Lemmy communities.

Seems like KBin is almost just a front-end for lemmy now :(

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] bron@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same observation I made here too. Seems like the API for kbin is still being developed.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You totally can view Kbin content. Make sure you're on the "Subscriptions" feed and not the "All" feed.

Additionally, on the sidebar you can go to settings and turn federation off. That'll only show stuff local to Kbin.

[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, it'll only show stuff on your local kbin instance, but it will also exclude stuff from other kbin instances, just as it does other lemmy instances.

[–] QHC@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This is accurate! In practice it probably doesn't make much difference yet, as there are significantly fewer active instances for Kbin compared to Lemmy as a whole.

[–] bron@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

True, but I was more speaking on the ability for the API to create new threads, comments, or magazines. This would definitely accelerate the adoption of the platform, not to mention open up the gates for more mobile applications to be developed. IMO that is one of the main things holding everyone back from migrating to kbin given that most Reddit users were on mobile.