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    • SeedyOne@lemm.ee
      17·
      1 year ago

      I love kbin but being a one man show and lacking API it was never really going to be the replacement. I am, however, glad to have it as one of a handful of smaller alternatives and a sort of cousin to Lemmy.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        51·
        1 year ago

        If it doesn’t have an API, how do I still see posts from it in my feed? Do you mean it integrates with the fediverse, but only has a web interface for now (ie. no apps)?

        • tourist@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, the latter. There is an API, but I think it was only released in the last month or so. I’m not sure to what extent it’s complete.

          A kbin instance can be downloaded as a PWA, and it works decent.

          As for third party apps there’s Lunar, iOS only. Haven’t tried it.

          There was also Artemis. It had the best UI/UX design I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately the dev appears to have vanished.

          Before the API, I think they were web scraping.

          • theneverfoxEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            That’s definitely not true, they had an API back in September when I looked into adding support for it

            They didn’t have an sdk, but the API most certainly has been around for a while

        • SeedyOne@lemm.ee
          4·
          1 year ago

          The API is new but took time and effort, it just wasn’t available at the time.