toot.wales is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
We are the Open Social network for Wales and the Welsh, at home and abroad! Y rhwydwaith cymdeithasol annibynnol i Gymru, wedi'i bweru gan Mastodon!

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There's a Fediverse alternative to #Reddit called #Kbin. More info at kbin.pub

Still VERY new, not many servers yet, two so far in English:

fedia.io
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 codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core, non-coders donate at buymeacoffee.com/kbin

(Sorry to people bored of this, had many requests to put info in one place)

kbin.pubHome | kbin.pub - Fediverse of content
nyzn

@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?

@nyzn

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.

@nyzn @feditips

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?

@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.

@feditips@mstdn.social @nyzn@toot.wales maybe it's the rate limiting or bot fighting captcha.