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Lemmy and Kbin: The Best Reddit Alternatives? (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Hairyblue@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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Love Reddit but tired of what's happening to it? We check out Lemmy and Kbin, two open-source fediverse alternatives that are growing fast.

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[–] czech@no.faux.moe 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

From kbin- how do you see a list of communities on lemmy.world? I've been navigating to https://lemmy.world/communities in a separate browser window to discover communities to individually search/subscribe to from kbin.

[–] Niello@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Click on the tab Magazines at the top, select local and federate, put lemmy.world in the search box to see all lemmy.world communities. If you want to check for community with certain keywords you can try putting [keyword]@lemmy.world. It can search for the keyword in both the name and description, but not extensive as if you'd search on lemmy.world.

This can use some improvement, but it's not a Kbin problem though, since Lemmy is even worse when it comes to searching for communities outside each instance.

[–] livus@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Go to https://kbin.social/magazines and turn on local and federated, then hit the search button. For some reason all the top "hot" are kbin but the "new" and "active" are various.

Then if you specifically want, say, lemmy.world, type that into the search field and hit search again. It will all show.

[–] Teppic@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

The article specifically says you can't search federated communities from kbin, but you can from Lemmy. This is just incorrect, both allow you to search local or local and federated.