I found out about it because of a hacker news comment discussing the Reddit drama. I’m pretty upset that I didn’t discover it on Reddit. I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?

  • spaceace
    0•2 years ago

    Same. I think I only have the kbin and am not sure if I have the lemmy. I keep seeing posts like this talking about it so I must be. Fuck am I old?

    • Zamboniman
      1•2 years ago

      and am not sure if I have the lemmy.

      You don’t. You are logged in to a kbin account but, just like if you were logged in to a lemmy account, you can read and post to the same threads and comments. Just like if you were logged in to your gmail account you can send an email to somebody with a hotmail account or another gmail account. Doesn’t matter.

    • VeeSilverball
      1•2 years ago

      In kbin’s UI, on every thread you can click “more”, then “copy url” to see what the origin of the thread is - if it shows another domain name like lemmy.ml then you know you are looking at a thread that originated on a different “fediverse instance”. Likewise you can also look at the URL of a username to see where they are posting from.

      Lemmy presents things a little bit differently from kbin, and when things are federated to different instances there’s no guarantee we see exactly the same things as each other(voting stats, replies etc.) What we do get is roughly enough to have a discussion, though.