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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I’m a little lost myself, so take this with a grain of salt, but…

    kbin has more complete microblogging integration. I don’t understand what it looks like or feels like, but here on Lemmy, I believe you can only post URLs-to and screenshots-of Mastodon posts. Not the posts themselves.

    The ActivityPub protocol underneath Mastodon and Lemmy technically supports that kind of interoperability. That’s why Mastodon users can comment on Lemmy posts and on Lemmy comments. But Lemmy has not yet adopted that feature. As far as I know.

    kbin has.

    As far as I can tell by reading the Redditor’s guide to how Kbin works (your what/how-to guide) over on reddit, it appears that microblogging posts can be made from within kbin.

    Which makes kbin a combination twitter/reddit. And it makes Lemmy a “reddit, but twitter users can find our posts and comment on them using their Twitter account in such a way so that they’re visible even to us Lemmy users, and boost our comments and posts to their followers.”


  • I will say that the short blackout was enough to get me onto the Fediverse. I didn’t even use the apps that would be affected by the API shutdown, so I never would have noticed the controversy without the blackout.

    But once the blackout was announced, I recognized how far reddit was willing to go in service of harvesting its users’ data. And after that point, I just didn’t feel good on the site anymore. (Granted, I first created an account on Mastodon because the people calling for blackouts never mentioned Lemmy. But still!)

    Between Facebook’s notification system repeatedly failing to direct me to comment replies, Twitter DDoSing itself, and reddit turning into the Eye of Sauron (which, again, I would not have even noticed happening were it not for the short protest), it seemed like the perfect time to exit the sinking ship of corporate social media.

    Meaning they did something. Maybe they didn’t avert the reddit apocalypse, but they still did something.