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  • gk99@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    The first time I went to make a Lemmy account, I found the “join lemmy” page and ended up confused and just decided to deal with it later. I then heard that the founders of lemmy were “genocide deniers” and “tankies” and whatever, then the same day I heard that reddit had just banned a community that existed to help people move to kbin.

    So I immediately went to kbin, clicked “sign in with Google,” and it was that easy.

    I know I already posted it in the other thread, but here’s another link to the list of evidence:

    https://kbin.social/m/lemmy@lemmy.ml/t/45917/Update-from-Lemmy-after-the-Reddit-blackout#comments

  • ReCursing@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Honestly it was pretty arbitrary, I happened to pick Kbin over Lemmy on the day, and figured I might change my mind and move to Lemmy if I didn’t like it. I feel like I’ve made the right choice though, I like it here!

  • spirit@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I am not advocating Kbin or Lemmy. But it is interesting to me that the reason behind the inception of Kbin was related to Lemmy. See the full discussion here where the creator of Kbin, @ernest, stated:

    The point is, I don’t want to create a lesser evil here. I want to create something truly good, which is why from the very beginning I’ve been striving to be transparent on all fronts. I’ll just say that before starting from scratch, I tried to create kbin as a fork of Lemmy. I like Rust, I respect them as architects and I’ve learned a lot about managing such a project. However, ultimately, I believe that I cannot remain indifferent to certain things. That’s why kbin is what it is now. Nevertheless, that collaboration with Lemmy’s developers can be beneficial for all of us at this stage. After all, Lemmy is not just one instance, and many amazing people are building the fediverse using this software.

    What was those “certain things” we do not know. But the full discussion there revolves around the political views. Check it yourself. But at the end of the day, choose what suits you best since they are contribute to the same Threadiverse.

  • HubertManne@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    tried them both out without an account and kbin was better. lemmy was unusable without an account. so I made a kbin account.

  • proximity3915@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I’m new to Lemmy and kbin, so these points may be more a me-thing than a Lemmy/kbin-thing, but from what I can see:

    • Accessing Lemmy content from kbin is pretty seamless, but it’s difficult to access kbin from Lemmy.

    • kbin’s integration with Mastodon/microblogging fediverses is neat.

    • kbin seems to have more magazines catering to more of my specific interests and hobbies, while Lemmy’s communities are more generic.

    • This is specific to the instance I am on (beehaw.org), but I can’t access the Lemmy instance when I’m using ProtonVPN.

    • I just read through the Mastodon thread on how the Lemmy developers are not consistent with their own policies of human rights. While that doesn’t automatically mean that Lemmy is bad, I feel more comfortable using software by developers who are not known to be “tankies”.

  • Coliseum7428@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I liked KBin for including other fediverse posts in the feed, and slightly the UI. I went through the TOS and some Lemmy instances I couldn’t even find them.

  • Untitled9999@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I looked at Lemmy.world then Kbin.

    I went with Kbin because Lemmy keeps pulling new threads onto the top of the home page feed. This pushes down content on the home page as you’re trying to read it. And I just don’t want it to be constantly pulling in new data, especially if I’m doing other stuff and my browser is just in the background.

  • iNeedScissors67@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    For me it simply came down to the fact that I prefer the layout, and it’s also nice knowing I can block whole domains (looking at you, furry spammers). It also integrates with Mastodon if that’s your thing (it’s not my thing), and I have high hopes for the ability of Ernest (the founder and only dev, to my knowledge) to usher it in a good and healthy direction. I can see all content from Lemmy and interact with it though, so it really just comes down to personal preference.

    • wreel@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 years ago

      Is kbin supported with a mobile app. I’ve been on Jerboa for Lemmy and it’s been pretty ok for beta.

      • iNeedScissors67@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        There’s one on the way to a beta (Artemis) but I just used the Firefox feature to place a webapp on my phone so I click that and it immediately opens in Firefox.

        • moralpanic@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

          Will apps made for Lemmy (like Sync for Lemmy that was just announced) work with Kbin? Or is it a different API entirely?

        • OldFartPhil@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

          The kbin mobile website works fine in Safari on the iPhone, too. Looks just like the website adapted for a smaller screen and has all the same functionality. With the exception of notifications, it’s fine. And it’s early days, people will develop apps for the platform.

        • root_beer@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

          It’s called Artemis now, and you can sign up to beta test. For those who aren’t aware, check @hariette’s profile, she’s been posting pretty frequently about it

    • OldFartPhil@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Same here. I like the look, usability and layout of Kbin better. I do wish there were more users here at kbin.social, though, as the federated feed is more lively on the large Lemmy instances.

      • Kierunkowy74@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        I do wish there were more users here at kbin.social, though, as the federated feed is more lively on the large Lemmy instances.

        kbin.social has more MAU (Monthly Active Users) now, than all Lemmy combined! That is of course effect of the spike this month and shall fade only on July, but did you already see activity on kbin.social alone fading?

        • OldFartPhil@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

          If I understand how the fediverse works (an open question :-)), the amount of activity on the home page/“all” feed/federated feed of an instance is dependent on how many magazines/communities the members are subscribed to. I’ve noticed that the “All” feed of the most established Lemmy instances have more posts than here at kbin.social. I would anticipate that situation improving over time as the community here grows and people increase the number of subscriptions they have. I would expect more (and more active) local magazines over time here, as well.

          • LambentMote@lemmy.nz
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            2 years ago

            I suspect that may have something to do with kbin.social’s federation not working during it’s initial growth period. Lots of users joined up but could only subscribe to local communities. The more we embrace federated content the smaller the differences between each platform/instance.

    • mrnotoriousman@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Yeah I tried both Lemmy and Kbin when the reddit protest started and just really like the kbin UI/experience a lot more. It also comes up pretty nice on mobile too without an app.

    • Lucien@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      Good God. On beehaw I had to block every furry community separately. Talk about annoying.

      • thanksbrother@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        Until I reached the fediverse I had no idea just how many furry-enthusiasts were out there. The heart wants what the heart wants, I guess.

      • iNeedScissors67@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        Oh God. About 6 years ago I was in Pittsburgh for work. I did get to see a Bruins/Penguins playoff game so that was nice, but I was at a Bridge conference (for people who design and build bridges, not the card game). Several hotel employees and taxi drivers warned me that a furry conference was coming the day our bridge conference ended. That was the first time I heard the term “furries”. Then they descended upon the city while I was still there. To this day it’s still the most intense culture shock I’ve ever had.

    • callyral@readit.buzz
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      2 years ago

      i’m a furry and out of the loop here, what’s going on with “furry spammers”? i saw this mentioned twice now which can’t be a coincidence

  • Hairyblue@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    A friend told me to try Kbin when the owner of Reddit turned out to be so terrible.

    I like it here.