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Are lemmy community posts automatically federated into their kbin counterparts? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by adonis@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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One thing I don't get right now, is how kbin/lemmy interact with each other?

When I subscribe to /m/technology here on kbin, do I get to see /c/technology posts from lemmy and can interact with them from within kbin? Or would I need to separately subscribe somewhere, or even register a new account on lemmy?

Also, If they're automatically federated, then how does it work with /m/askkbin and /c/asklemmy, both with different names.

Thanks!

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

Ah, I see ...thx for the detailed clarification.

So, I'd need to subscribe to both communities then, to prevent FOMO 😂

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

Yup, but you only need the one website, and while the benefits of federation are not fully realized right now -- and frankly it doesn't seem like it's going to evolve quite how the original devs imagined it -- it does mean less content goes away if one site goes off the rails.

[–] adonis@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, I'm already a little bit familiar with the fediverse, and I understand that I can do everything from within one website. The only thing I wasn't sure about, was, whether there was some automatic merging of the identical communities.

I'm really excited to see where all of this goes, especially now, after the self-destruction of the two big platforms. Sure, some things might still be a bit rough around the edges, but considering all of this happened so quickly, it's already more than usable.

I could even imagine people to start moving away even before a platform destructs itself, like YouTube.

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

Do we have the ability yet to make multi-subs? Like for example a magazine that includes both technology@kbin.social and technology@lemmy.ml, the way we could make multisubs in reddit?

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

I don't personally know of anything, but us reddit refugees have been mentioning it for a while, so I'm sure that Lemmy and Kbin devs know that some of us would like it, and frankly with the number of "general" instancecs that have popped up, I think it's more in line with how people are actually going to use the Threadiverse. I think it'll eventually show up in Lemmy, Kbin, or a fork, but it could be a while, and IMHO it's a low priority until user numbers make navigation more unwieldy.