The ones I’ve used enough to have an opinion on are Kbin Social (current one) and Lemmy World. Out of the two, I liked Kbin the most for being the most minimalist. Even if Kbin is the most unstable/beta forum of the two, I still prefer it over all the visual noise of Lemmy World.
I feel you, I like Kbin the most as well in terms of visuals and potential for integration. It’s neat that you can browse what I think is Mastodon style posts, both Kbin and Lemmy/Beehaw have the capability. I think Kbin’s is a little better right now though, as it looks like it has nested threads so there’s context?
I’ll try and show an example:
Here is Beehaws Technology community with the Comments tab selected - I’m not sure if this is all comments or “microblog” as it’s called in Kbin. Permalink to c/technology
Again, if Beehaw’s comments is just all comments then disregard, but either way I think it’s pretty cool that if I have a Mastodon user I’m aware of, I can talk to them from a specific magazine. It’s not perfect right now but it’s pretty neat.
Ultimately though I use both for different reasons, the community here on Beehaw is much better but I get more variety from Kbin. Realistically I’m just using one and then the other lol
The ones I’ve used enough to have an opinion on are Kbin Social (current one) and Lemmy World. Out of the two, I liked Kbin the most for being the most minimalist. Even if Kbin is the most unstable/beta forum of the two, I still prefer it over all the visual noise of Lemmy World.
I feel you, I like Kbin the most as well in terms of visuals and potential for integration. It’s neat that you can browse what I think is Mastodon style posts, both Kbin and Lemmy/Beehaw have the capability. I think Kbin’s is a little better right now though, as it looks like it has nested threads so there’s context?
I’ll try and show an example:
Here is Beehaws Technology community with the Comments tab selected - I’m not sure if this is all comments or “microblog” as it’s called in Kbin. Permalink to c/technology
Here is Kbin’s Tech magazine with the Microblog tab selected: Permalink to /m/tech/microblog
Again, if Beehaw’s comments is just all comments then disregard, but either way I think it’s pretty cool that if I have a Mastodon user I’m aware of, I can talk to them from a specific magazine. It’s not perfect right now but it’s pretty neat.
Ultimately though I use both for different reasons, the community here on Beehaw is much better but I get more variety from Kbin. Realistically I’m just using one and then the other lol