Moving to: m/AskMbin!

Mainly better UI, less questionable dev, and better support with mastodon if I chose to browse mastodon.

Maybe it's nostalgia from my vbulletin/phpbb days...

When the blackout came, Lemmy had some dissent (people couldn’t fully recommend it). A community about Kbin got banned and I came and looked at it. I just liked the way it looked.

Took a bit to get used to it, but the layout makes sense and it made me look into Mastodon.

Once federation kicked in, I could easily see posts from everywhere here, and the local magazines had nice people. Didn’t see a reason to look elsewhere.

I can’t speak to “why not Lemmy”, but genuinely I like it here and don’t see a reason to go elsewhere

Because I applied to 3 Lemmy instances and never got anything more that the spinning icon when trying to log in. I'm glad I ended up at kbin.social, though.

I like the layout, and I really like the ability to microblog at a magazine for more casual posts that don't truly deserve a whole thread of their own.

If I'm going to post "new event x starting on y date with z rewards, discuss here" I'll make that a proper formal thread. If I'm going to post "I thought the new event was cute, though they could have done abc better" I'll make that a microblog.

The layout of Kbin is so much better Lemmy was just confusing as heck.

1. Involving microblogs is very interesting and I eager to see how it opens up more discussions after Kbin grows bigger.
2. Solarized light theme looks very nice!

Because I'm dumb.

Not that "signing up for kbin was a dumb move"; more that I was too dumb to understand the front page full of technical bullshit on the Lemmy landing site.

I started to skim it and went "Wow, ok, this is complicated, I guess I'll have to figure it out later; I only have about thirty minutes right now."

Then I clicked on a link to kbin, and there was content, and a login button, and a sign up button, and a quick registration page, and bang! I'm on kbin commenting on cat pictures. The only adjustment I had to make to my browsing habits was using my middle mouse button to click links instead of my left button (to open them in a new tab, which I had set Reddit to do by default).

Beehaw was the same way, so I signed up there, too, but their web UI doesn't work great for me. Sorting by "local" and "active" only shows me stuff from yesterday through last week, but sorting by anything else floods my feed with a dozen new topics every five seconds that automatically scroll everything down. I don't even have enough time to read a longish thread title before it's rudely shoved off the bottom of my screen in favor of six posts from some random citrus-appreciation instance, or something. So I'm going to check back there in a month or two, because I like the on screen layout better.

• User interface
• Microblog

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/[email protected]/t/45917/Update-from-Lemmy-after-the-Reddit-blackout#comments

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

I was able to subscribe to discussions on Beehaw using Kbin ; I wasn't able to do that using Lemmy, for whatever reason (probably me, but who knows for sure)
Anyway, Kbin works, so I'm using it.

Got tired of the Lemmy front page bugs (the one where new posts come flooding in, and the one where hot/active stops working until the server gets restarted). Kbin front page "just works."

(at least until today, when the entire front page became Sync is coming to Lemmy)

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.

Mostly I just think it looks better than lemmy hahaha.

Frankly I have trust issues lol. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do the thing that most people seemed to be flocking to. And kbin seems to have more features and is already its own thing, already has an identity, isn't trying to replace an existing social media channel

Happy here so far

Mostly #3. It looks nicer and seems to work better. And it happily also means I don't have to deal with #5 because ick!

i didnt look too deep into it, i just looked at both, and thought Kbins UI was nicer

I started on Beehaw, but Lemmy had some automatic refresh thing that I could not turn off anywhere so I came to kbin.

Whynotboth.jpg?

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.

Honestly atm I'm using lemmy for mobile and kbin for desktop. I might switch to kbin more permanently if the app gets finished and is a better user interface. I'm mostly on lemmy simply because I'm mostly on mobile.

The personal views of the lemmy devs are bad, but by the nature of FOSS idk if that should matter. I also know nothing about the veiws of the dev of kbin, and I don't think I wanna know tbh. I'm not sure how I should behave in regards to the problematic political views of the people making things I like. Lemmy could always be forked and worked on by different people but that would probably only really happen if the current devs ruined it or abandoned it.