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      I’ve joined both in hopes of seeing which one thrives the most in terms of users in the niche communities that made Reddit worth visiting for me, personally. So far, they seem largely similar. Points to Lemmy for having an Android app ready to go. Kbin has one in early, early beta that is (according to the GitHub) lacking in certain functionality.

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          From my understanding, you can interact between the different platforms. They are a little different in their approach, and I don’t fully “get” kbin just yet, but you can post to and interact with Lemmy from a kbin account.

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      They’re just different softwares that communicate over ActivityPub. They’re both link aggregators, so they’ll be similar in functionality.

      For an easy comparison using established names: One is Reddit, one is Digg, but they can communicate with each other and show each other the same content, and you can just pick which one you want to use.

      There will be more differences than this, however I haven’t really used kbin much to know what makes it different to Lemmy fully.

      The Fediverse allows people to just choose the platforms they prefer, and then talk to everyone else on the Fediverse regardless, instead of having to create multiple accounts all over the place to talk to specific people.