There's a Fediverse alternative to #Reddit called #Kbin. More info at https://kbin.pub
Still VERY new, not many servers yet, two so far in English:
https://fedia.io
https://kbin.social
No app yet, use it through these sites. Subreddits are called "Magazines". You can interact with magazines from other servers.
Coders help Kbin at https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core, non-coders donate at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin
(Sorry to people bored of this, had many requests to put info in one place)
@feditips Hey Fedi.Tips, do I need to make a separate Fedi account on kbin.social if I want to post or comment, or is there a way to do it with my mastodon account?
In theory, eventually, you'll be able to comment from Mastodon and follow Kbin accounts and magazines from Mastodon. You can already make a magazine's profile appear on Mastodon, see screenshot below.
At the moment though, the main Kbin server kbin.social is so totally overwhelmed that they've had to activate a protection system called Cloudflare which prevents cross-platform federation working.
So, right now, you'd need to sign up on a Kbin server.
@feditips thank you, that's helpful.
Kbin also supports at least two post types: Articles and Notes (which they call posts or microblogs)
You can* post a note/microblog to a group from Mastodon, but you can't post an article with headlines and formatting because mastodon doesn't support that.
(* in theory, if it wasn't all broken due to cloudflare and too many users currently)
@feditips@mstdn.social @nyzn@toot.wales I'm sorry but I don't understand how Cloudflare itself could be preventing cross-platform federation. Aren't they doing mostly DDOS protection?
They're supposed to just be for DDOS protection, but apparently they also cause problems with federation:
@feditips@mstdn.social @nyzn@toot.wales thanks, didn't know about this. My instance is behind cloudflare and I think it works well. But I did not deploy the under attack mode. I guess it's time to check out cloudflare and tune the settings in the way that it won't mess with federation and if not possible then move away from it.
Ah, interesting!
The lead developer posted about this, sounds like they are working on the problem:
@feditips@mstdn.social @nyzn@toot.wales maybe it's the rate limiting or bot fighting captcha.