I am attempting to login to a kbin account on kbin.social and it simply isn’t working at all. Any tips or tricks? It would be a bummer if this app only worked with lemmy instances.

  • Vaseline@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Last I’ve heard is kbin has yet to provide an API to easily allow developers retrieve information. The only app I’ve heard that will work for kbin is Artemis, but currently only providing a limited access to beta.

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        1 year ago

        Yes exactly. Logging into a Lemmy instance (ex. Lemmy.world) account on Memmy is possible but logging into a kbin instance (ex. Kbin.social) not possible.

        I’m pretty sure lemmy can see content for a kbin instance and vice versa.

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          1 year ago

          Yes, lemmy and kbin can access content from one another (assuming instances aren’t blocked on each side).

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        1 year ago

        Kbin works a bit differently than Lemmy. There is a boost button in addition to the upvote button. The boost will push the content up while upvote signified that you like the content. It also has microblogging which is closer to what Mastodon does. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have an official API, so Hariette the dev of Artemis had to create her own that scrubs the site and gathers the content to display in the app.

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    1 year ago

    I assume Kbin has an entirely different api. Maybe Memmy can be updated to communicate with both, but I don’t think it current does that.

    I just use a lemmy server local to me and subscribe to any Kbin communities that I’m interested in. Not really missing out on anything other than subscribing to mastodon/microblog accounts.