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HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Imma start by prefacing that I like kbin way better so far.

But do you guys think they will continue to coexist long term or are we looking at an HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray scenario where only one will remain?

Just seems like they don’t play very nice. My lemmy community I created days ago still isn’t federating here. Furthermore it seems like kbin to lemmy federation is much slower and buggier than lemmy to lemmy and kbin to kbin federation.

Hard to sort by new bc sometimes lemmy posts are already off the first page by the time they federate. Sometimes stuff doesn’t federate at all. I’m almost to the point I feel like I need to have an account on each for browsing.

For the record I bought a HD-DVD player.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, they will continue to coexist for the foreseeable future. There's a reason why people choose one or the other since they each have their pros and cons, and the fact that they do federate with each other (even if it can be buggy at times) means people will continue to be able to pick whichever one they prefer without having to lose out on most content from the other.

As for your experiences with federating, you do need to make sure federation is getting triggered. For instance, I created a magazine on kbin.social a few days ago but it was taking forever to show up on lemmy.world (I have accounts on both). I had to specifically search for the magazine URL in the lemmy.world community search before it triggered federating that magazine and created the mirrored community on lemmy. Once I did that, it showed up just fine. From what I've seen, federation of new communities/magazines doesn't happen automatically. It only occurs if someone specifically searches for it by URL in the other software. Hopefully that's a bug and will be fixed at some point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Right, I even read that somewhere in a how to, that the federation of a magazine / community needs to be triggert by a specific search on the other platform.

Edit: P. S. : Blu-ray was boosted by having a free player included in each new game console from that company.