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  • I rage quit Lemmy when I saw the developers of it defending genocide. Previously I had heard about that through the grapevine and thought I could hold my nose and use Lemmy anyway but when I read the actual discussion it made me sick.

    Plus I know the language kbin is written in so I can contribute better to kbin.

    • This is when I came over to kbin. Never saw it myself but was warned of it.

      The kicking-off point was that I actually had created two communities and made a post in each one talking about how I was toying with the idea of using the Reddit API to mirror posts into them from the subreddits of the same name and then they magically disappeared (I assumed deleted by admins). So I dug into it and asked @feditips and was told they don't recommend Lemmy for those same reasons.

      Turns out it was a weird nuance of language settings that hid them from me, despite being a mod of the new communities. So they are still there, but now I'm SERIOUSLY questioning the capabilities to moderate if I couldn't see posts because of language selection, especially my own posts.

    • Yeah I'll have to look into that as if they are accepting not only Genocide but possibly the Genocide of Trans people then I've got to get out quick due to being a Trans Person myself.

  • Used Lemmy first and the Jerboa app. It felt familiar and I wrapped my head around in in a day or two.

    Then I learned about the devs philosophies and just decided i didn't personally want to use their program.

    I swapped to Kbin and have found the community to be very wonderful and engaging. I found the UI to be very clean. I also love the built in mastadon support.

    Kbin is much younger than Lemmy, so things can only improve from here!

    • It's good to know that Kbin is newer than Lemmy, probably hints why some of it needs a bit of work but I have enjoyed the two seconds of usage I have had on it. Also, I'm only just learning now about the stuff that Lemmy has done, Not sure it's been suppressed or people are just not informed, I will look further into Kbin thank you.

  • I answered this the other day over at asklemmy so I'm going to cut n paste:

    Why I joined

    • had a more intuitive interface
    • had a better aesthetic
    • had a much cooler name
    • the dev seemed like a cool guy
    • before federation it felt exciting like being on the ground floor of something

    Why I stayed

    • has heaps of cool features and functions that are easy to use, like seeing upvotes, better blocking
    • I like the Mastodon interface too
    • turns out the dev definitely is awesome and everything is very open
    • it has a really chill community
    • I still just like it more than the various Lemmys

  • For me it was the UI. Replies to comments on Lemmy are offset by, like, a single pixel. They're more obvious here. Yup, that was the biggest thing for me.

    • Yes, that was the first thing I noticed about Lemmy. Why even have nested comments if they're indented so little? Terrible!

      Kbin is better but I still needed to make it even bigger before I was satisfied. And add collapsing comments.

  • I've seen "kbin is confusing" a few times, and frankly can't imagine any aspect of it that is confusing at all.

    • Neither. One of the reasons I'm here is it's less confusing.

    • I didn’t stick with Lemmy long enough to make this point of comparison, but just as someone who never got into Twitter in the first place, the microblogging section is definitely taking some time to wrap my head around. That said, I really like that it’s there and I think it’s a major boon over lemmy. I hope community owners and moderators will get more microblogging integration options for magazines as Kbin advances.

  • I made a kbin and a beehaw account originally, then left beehaw when they raised a ton of red flags about how incapable they were at moderating at scale. Then I made a Vlemmy account until the insurance just disappeared overnight. So at this point I'm on kbin exclusively by accident I guess, but I do like the default mobile UI and the Artemis app more than any of the current lemmy UI options (though I am waiting eagerly for Sync).

    Curious what parts of kbin are confusing or more difficult to use when compared to Lemmy?

    As far as I can tell, they're mostly the same, especially coming from Reddit

  • I like the user interface of kbin, and I just hate the name lemmy. Only one thing in this world should be called lemmy.

  • I had created a Lemmy account at the beginning, not having a clue about things (like so many of us). Then I ran into someone suggesting Kbin - had to search around to figure out where it was and how to get it. The early stock UI for Kbin won me over vs. Lemmy's, even though the content was (more or less) the same. With lots of scripting to customize the looks further and with features those scripts or default that Lemmy users are asking for at the moment, I'm very happy here.

    Am I getting the same as any other Lemmy user? I think it comes and goes (it seems to vary between Lemmy instances too), but that's a matter of maturing the federation workings, and I get plenty as it is so it's not like there's nothing to see. Plus when I need more things to look at I can jump over to the microfeed tab and get lots to read as well from Mastadon.

  • aesthetics, mostly. and honestly it's just the first place i've put my roots down, I don't think I have any specific loyalty to one instance or another.

  • @SamXavia I have accounts on lemmy, kbin and Mastodon.social, and I've pretty much settled on the masto. Maybe because I never was a twitter user, it is a slightly novel format for me. Anyway, there are plenty of humans there, so lots to share and engage with...

  • Preference: Kbin, because of the UI / UX

    But also: I have accounts on kbin, Lemmy and mastadon, my favorite part is switching when I need a different flavor of hot/active, or something’s going on with another server.

    • Yeah I do see the use of using multiple but I know that I will in the future prefer having a 'Main' and as of the moment it seems like my Lemmy will be that.

  • It integrates better with Mastodon, I can post to hashtags and see hashtags from here.

  • I feel like all the reddit neckbeards went to Lemmy. Better vibe over here plus branding + UI.

    • Yeah looking to see if I can bring the content I've used on here across or if I need to 100% restart from scratch again. I do luckily already have a Kbin account that I've been messing around with but don't want to lose my Communities / Magazines.

  • One thing that I like about kbin is that it's not trying to be "x, but federated" like lemmy or mastodon for example. It's more exiting to try to make something new! I think it's very apparent how some parts of lemmy are full of redditisms on purpose which I disslike.

    That said, I do have a lemmy account that I use for posting about other stuff. There are a tons of website sprouting up as contenders for a space in the new internet landscape and I'm having a lot of fun trying them out without really binding myself to one too tightly

    • Tried joining a Lemmy instance but loading spinner stay stuck , didn't successfully create account
    • Not much of a redditor , glad you're not limited to redditlike functions . Only downside's microblog functionality very basic compared to single purpose platforms (Mastodon|(.)key) , but don't want hassle of maintaining multiple fediverse accounts
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