I have most of the Fediverse-based account and seem to have just gravitated towards Lemmy over Kbin as found it very confusing, What makes you prefer Kbin over Lemmy or any other Fediverse instances?

  • kglitch@kglitch.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Samantha E Xavia@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • herpderpedia@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • GeekFTW@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Extra features like (apologies for the run-on sentence) being able to see upvotes and downvotes on threads and comments like lemmy admins can, better integration with mastodon, every community has both a ‘reddit-like’ section like Lemmy/Reddit, and a ‘twitter-like’ section which as I mentioned integrates with mastodon via hashtags, we can block users, communities, domains and (soon) instances, we have a wide variety of user-style scripts via Tampermonkey to customize the UI (the base UI is also, subjectively, better).

    Given its all federated, you also don’t lose anything by using kbin since you have access to lemmy too. Plus the dev is just the nicest, hard working son of a bitch lol.

    Only drawback is we dont have an API yet, so for mobile you’re stuck with the mobile site, but the mobile site is also really good so eh. Once the API is up tho there’s a few apps which have already said they’ll support kbin as well, so that’s a matter of time.

  • livus@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    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

  • readbeanicecream@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Came for the UI. Stayed for the granular settings (including turning federation on and off) and the content just seemed higher quality (though that is very subjective)

  • bradboimler@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • DrStrange_99@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    Started with kbin today. After the first few interactions , it seems to get much better.

    Edit: had to scroll down fully to type this comment. Is it just me or is it like this ?

    • curiosityLynx@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Iirc that’s intentional so you are more likely to read what others have written before starting your own comment chain. That might just be Tildes though, there that’s explicitly said to be the reason why the commenting box is at the bottom.

  • Xperr7@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    Preferred the stock UI of Kbin, then I found out about userstyles and am in love with them. I’m a big fan of the microblogging, as it’s a place for posts that don’t warrant a full thread, but can still spark discussion. The politics of the Lemmy devs disgust me, so I’d rather not use a site using their software. Public upvotes/downvotes are great IMO, lets things be more transparent (like for instance I upvote all my posts, without it being public no one would know), plus it helps catch fake votes.

    I also just find the name Kbin to be more catchy than Lemmy. Like GabeN, or k than.