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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps”
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If it wasn’t for old Reddit and RES I’d be off there today or if platforms like this one get a good user base of quality people. This Fediverse thing is really neat but I think most people will not want to invest the time to learn how to use it. Today is my first day here and I still have a lot of questions for example I know that Mastadon is part of the Fediverse. Does that mean I can use that service due to having a Kbin account or do I have to sign up with one of their servers?
I have the same question. I have seen toots on Mastodon that make it sound like you can integrate them, but I have not found a way how. I’m banking on apps that are being developed to address this and make it clear and obvious.
Kbin is a weird implementation. I think anything you post here is accessible by someone with a Mastodon account, but it wouldn’t show up for them the way we see it here. It would just look like random posts like in Twitter. I haven’t used kbin enough to even try, but theoretically you could subscribe to a Mastodon user and see their posts from here. Probably in the microblog tab.
From what I understand, andi might be wrong because this is just what I’ve picked up from my few days on kbin, it’s more like you can read and respond to things on other sites, but only after you tell it to look for it, first. Like, you can copy a link to a kbin community into Mastodon, then tell your Mastodon account to follow out. It will then pop into your Mastodon home feed, and you can reply like you would a post on Mastodon.
But you can’t actually make a new post that goes to Mastodon from kbin - you’d need your own account on a Mastodon server to do that. Same way, I think you wanted to post a new post to kbin or Lenny, you couldn’t do it FROM Mastodon. You’d need to do it from a kbin or lemmy account.