is it lemmy and kbin or something else
Yeah it’s Lemmy + Kbin. I’m not aware of any other federated link aggregators (read as Reddit clones), but if there are they would also fit.
what term does the threadiverse refer to?
Submitted 4 months ago by pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone to fediverse@lemmy.world
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Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 4 months ago
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Friendica has been doing it longer than Lemmy or kbin, but it’s a microblogging platform with a feature rich groups implementation, rather than a groups focused platform like Lemmy and kbin.
swab148@startrek.website 4 months ago
I believe Mastodon would be included as well, basically anywhere you can post with comments and has implemented the ActivityPub protocol.
Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 4 months ago
I don’t think it does, Mastodon is a microblogging platform, not a link aggregator. “Threadiverse” specifically means “the link aggregator part of the Fediverse”, because most Fediverse projects are microblogs.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
It does not include Mastodon. Everything that has implemented the ActivityPub protocol is called the Fediverse.
mac@programming.dev 4 months ago
Currently theres also mbin (fork of kbin) and lotide that have instances running them
Also some others in development but nobody running them yet
sab@kbin.social 4 months ago
In practice, it's Lemmy and Kbin.
More theoretically, it's the part of the Fediverse that deals with threads rather than posts: You share some sort of content (text, images, a video, a link) along with a title, and people comment on it. The most common content type in the Fedverse is posts/microblogs, which it what Mastodon operates with. These posts are generally not visible from Lemmy, meaning that the majority of the Fediverse is invisible from Lemmy; what you see from there is only the "threadiverse" part. Kbin seeks to bridge the two.
You can view threads in Mastodon, but they appear only as the text of the title along with a link to the rest of the content. People can of course comment as normal.