• Cobe98@lemmy.world
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    This will really legitimize and mainstream the platform!

    I am a Boost for Reddit User, but have seen Sync and it is well designed. Jerboa is cool but it is not there yet. The experience the dev from Sync brings to Lemmy will be amazing.

    Not asking for features but would be good if kbin is included with it so that user fragmentation is limited. I still don’t really understand the difference with Lemmy but it’s cool.

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      1 year ago

      My understanding is its all different UIs creating/cataloging content via the ActivityPub standard and it comes down to the different “types” of content being emphasized or focused on. Lemmy focuses on"link aggregation" ala Reddit, Mastodon does “Microblogging” ala Twitter, kbin does and supports both.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks for your answer it clears it up.

        So theoretically it seems like someone could create an app which “marries” mastodon content with Lemmy.

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          Really, I think one of the only reasons kbin hasn’t exploded like the others, is because of that split nature. The Mastodon blow up and the Reddit blew up were both instances of people looking for a very direct replacement to the thing they were leaving, rather than something that was, from their perspective at the time, a replacement with extras. Kbin could also use more devs though, I think they just have the one who is doing it on donations alone.

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          Yes, I haven’t tried it myself but my understanding is that kbin is exactly that. What kbin calls a “magazine” maps directly with Lemmy communities/subs and a kbin user can subscribe to a Lemmy sub via the same process they would use to subscribe to a kbin magazine. Kbin microblogging maps directly with Mastodon posts and so a kbin user can follow Mastodon users and their posts the same way they follow fellow kbin user microblogs.