Is it just me or does the Lemmy community actively ignoring the existence of kbin? I see a lot of posts explicitly mentioning Lemmy users but only posts from kbinners mention both platforms.

#kbinMeta

  • pmtriste@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Well, coming from a new Lemmy user, I just mean the platform, not the software or instance. We’re all federated anyway, right? Maybe I just don’t understand the difference that kbin offers over other Lemmy instances. Is it more? Then again, I’m also not entirely clear on why I need both a Lemmy account and a mastodon account.

    • GeekFTW@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      @pmtriste

      Maybe I just don’t understand the difference that kbin offers over other Lemmy instances.

      kbin has a few extra features (and keep in mind, I don’t keep up-to-date on lemmy’s development so over the last 4 weeks some of these may have been implemented, or may be in the development stages for you guys, for all I know):

      • Blocking domains
      • Blocking instances (coming soon)
      • A different UI (subjective as to if it’s better, I prefer it)
      • Better federation with Mastodon (all of our communities have both a ‘normal Reddit post’ view and a ‘Twitter style’ view, the latter of which federates well with Mastodon.
      • Upvotes and downvotes.
      • The ability to view, on a thread-by-thread and comment-by-comment basis, who upvoted and downvoted (a positive, or negative, depending on your views)
      • A large number of userstyle scripts that people are cranking out for tampermonkey and the like to improve things.

      We do have the drawback of not having an API yet (though our mobile site is great anyway), so no apps for us yet. That being said a couple of the existing/in development ones have already said kbin will be supported once ernest puts an API in place so that’s a matter of time.

      • Semmelstulle@kbin.socialOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        @GeekFTW @pmtriste yeah at the moment I’m only waiting for the api to come out. This will spawn lots of good mobile clients. Artemis so far is pretty good for its early stage and the scrape yourself approach but an api is much more efficient and a much lower entry point for devs.
        But in the end I’m happy we even have these options!

    • Pamasich@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      @pmtriste

      Then again, I’m also not entirely clear on why I need both a Lemmy account and a mastodon account.

      That one is probably the biggest difference between lemmy and kbin. The latter combines the lemmy and mastodon experience, so you only really need one account to interact with both.