The great part of images in comments is that they can complete a meme.
Unlimited potential
Very happy to see this was added!!
Can’t really make apps for a site that doesn’t have an API. They did announce recently that Kbin’s API is nearly done, so soon there’ll be a flood of Kbin apps as well, and support for Kbin in all of the Lemmy apps too
and support for Kbin in all of the Lemmy apps
Very much doubt. I’m sure many will but not all. The API isn’t identical so they’d have to commit to maintaining both.
Yeah I suppose not all of them will want to commit to supporting Kbin, but some definitely will. Honestly though, so long as it’s possible to search for and subscribe to Kbin magazines from Lemmy, that’s all I really care about.
If nothing else, the Sync developer said he’d do it.
Memmy dev said they plan to as well but “not within this year” if I recall correctly.
Cool. Memmy is the best, but what is the purpose of a native kbin integration if it’s already federated? Are we able to view and not post or comment?
Came here to say that… Take your upvote, good sir…
This is why Lemmy’s tangential features, such as being able to post from Mastodon accounts, or being able to post to that video service, are also not going to happen any time soon. It’s just a lot of moving pieces, for functionality that’s more interesting than useful.
I don’t, it’s not that much more work as the basics of it won’t change that much over time and the functionality will be near identical. We might not get newer features that are eventually added though.
I would expect that 99% bits of your app that talk to the API can be the same for both, you just need to maintain slightly different code for interacting with each actual API.
In fact scrolling further through the comments I see that not only is this how @hariette is handling it for Artemis but she’s also looking at making the talking to both APIs bit of the code available to other devs.
It would be great if someone created a fediverse browser native app. Log into all the platforms and add a translation layer to create a truly unique experience. Maybe it would only make sense if you could authenticate one account on all the activitypub platforms? I understand the amount of technical hurdles and maintenance to do so. I suppose I find the thought of experiencing them combined intriguing. If someone created A single app experience, in a intuitive way, I’d definitely give it a try. I can see lemmy posts on mastidon. Would be kind of cool if it could handle that and display those posts using a lemmy ui. But making it seamless.
Based on this: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-clients/src/branch/main/README.md Fedilab, once it supports Lemmy and Kbin
The thing is, when an app does only 1 thing, it’s easy to make sure it does that thing well. It’s going to be a lot of work to support so many different API’s, keep them updated, and provide a good UI/UX.
Yeah. Take the state of game emulation for example. Yes, Retroarch DOES have like 500 emulator “”“cores”“”, all of which can be configured from a single general purpose UI and using a single input layer.
But holy shit does hat UI and input configuration SUCK DONKEY BALLS.
My Anbernic is very happy running 80% of its consoles though it. But I do wish there was something better looking when I have the actual emulation layer running.
@Nitrate55 I can’t wait to be able to use Kbin on the go, I’m really gonna have nothing be done at that point
I do most of my kbin browsing on my phone using good old firefox.
It isn’t perfect, but definitely works well enough until a dedicated mobile app comes out.
There is nothing to do because kbin hasn’t released a working api yet
I still have absolutely no idea what the difference between lemmy, kbin and mastodon is.
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Kbin is more like Facebook in my opinion
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So they’re all entirely separate federated networks?
No, they use ActivityPub underneath, so you can go to kbin/mastodon communities/users/etc. from Lemmy and vice versa.
The catch here being that integration between them is somewhat limited. Mastodon displays Lemmy posts as Mastodon posts, with the communities being their own accounts. Not the best system. Lemmy can’t access Mastodon posts at all(AFAIK). Interaction between Lemmy and Kbin often also leaves out lots of information.
Oh cool, thanks.
It’s not 3rd party app developers fault that kbin didn’t have any stable api yet. Now that they fast track the api development, I think we can expect more 3rd party apps coming soon.
These things take time and once KBin releases its API, the mobile apps will start flowing.
I’m pretty excited for that and will give KBin a try once that happens.
If only kbin had an API…
I was thinking of making my first attempt at an android app a kbin app because of the lack of options, but their documentation (while done really well so far) isn’t fleshed out yet.
Lemmy’s Documentation is very confusing to me as someone still learning to program (does it get better when you are more experienced???), but it’s definitely a lot more fleshed out, so that’s why I’m attempting to make just another Lemmy client looool
Hi, currently three years into a job title that indicates I program for a living (it sounds more like I’m a manager). I do Python professionally and work on learning C. It… it kinds gets worse, if you go this far, but you’re more able to handle it.
12 years here, it gets better :)
Oh, it’s the artemis girl
I was introduced to remote debugging a few weeks ago. I had heard of it and it sounded neat, but it’s so much better than I could possibly have imagined.
Is kbin not lemmy? I can subscribe to kbin communities through my Lemmy instance though?
They both use ActivityPub, which is why the content is shared. But they’re different software.
before the whole reddit clusterfuck and blackout started I created both kbin and lemmy accounts. One of those is just gathering dust
Yeah, I have a kbin account as well, but I prefer Lemmy so far, since it actually has a data API and I prefer the web interface over that of kbin (and now we have old.lemmy.world!)
I am test driving Artemis for kbin, but Hariette and her team have an uphill battle until kbin comes up with an API, so development has been slow. Not their fault, of course.
API is almost done! Been using an internal build of the app that uses Artemis’ kbin instance with those changes. And oh god is so much better 👌
So we’re nearing a point where apps for kbin will start popping up ✨
my instance doesn’t have that thingy
TIL about old.lemmy.world, cool!
There’s also m.lemmy.world running Voyager (formerly wefwef).
Same. I just don’t have a reason to use kbin. The interface is not my cup of tea and I don’t like the way they’ve handled communities or ‘mAgAzInEs’.
Why you letting your lemmy account gather dust?
I’m about to launch a Lemmy app (by Monday, my friend yelled at me when he found out I’d been using it exclusively for weeks without putting up a beta), and kbin support is on my to-do list.
Frankly, I started using Lemmy, saw this could be the thing I’ve been waiting for, and decided the edges were too rough. So I made the app I always wanted for Reddit with the goal of using multiple servers, multiple accounts seamlessly. My guiding philosophy is making the client into another layer of federation,
I checked out the kbin docs and I can probably knock it out in a couple days, I’ve got abstraction layers to handle different versions and forks of Lemmy… Head over to !flemmy@lemmy.world and let me know this is something people want and I’ll put it higher on the priority list
If you add support for kbin, you’ll probably going to add support for kbin’s microblogging feature. If you added support for kbin’s microblogging, might as well add mastodon support. Heck, might as well add pixelfed support to the mix, why not? Voila, now you have a super federated app.
mabye peertube too
Artemis developer said they’re gonna public source the code soonand their app supports both Lemmy and Kbin, which might help you with Kbin support. Just a suggestion, I know nothing about how code works, though.
Heck yeah my guy!!
Ngl I thought the Flemish would claim Flemmy before you did.
Yeah I left Kbin for this purpose.
I’m still trying to hold on to kbin but lemmy is just so much more accessible. I’m super stoked for the Artemis app but it’s just taking way too long
Whoever ends up doing so should set up the interface so that Lemmy posts are blue and kbin posts green, that way Lemmy users can downvote us and call us poor.
I heard Tildes discourages app development because they think apps go against the purpose of the site.
It’s on the internet, it exists to be modified. Tis the law.
With that said, if I heard that, I’d either do things low profile or I’d not do it at all, because at any point the devs can just intentionally ruin whatever you use to make your app work. And low profile isn’t an option, RiF’s dev will always have at least a couple hundred who will try whatever they make, day 1. In their shoes, I would contact the Tildes dev directly and ask where we stand, then go forward with blessing, or leave.
I tried Tildes out, but I am not very active on there. I don’t think it is what I was looking for when leaving Reddit.
Isn’t that what the RIF dev is making?
Yes! He linked to the post over on tildes prior to shutting down RIF.
Wish he’d make it for lemmy
I agree. I enjoyed RIF for so many years. Paid for it too. I would gladly pay him again for a lemmy app.
Same here.
What even is the difference? The only thing I saw different was the UI compared to most Lemmy instances viewed through a browser.
Microblogging is the first thing that comes to mind. And subscribing or blocking entire domains.
Being able to block users, communities, and domains is just so useful for avoiding content I am not interested in.
Kbin should have prioritised their API rather than adding microblogging to a platform that didn’t need it.
The addition of microblogging is the main draw for me
I just want to be able to browse lemmy/kbin and mastodon with a single login
