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  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    Learned about Lemmy from Reddit but never heard of kbin until recently. That said, I like the name Lemmy a lot more than the name kbin. kbin sounds like a hex editor for KDE, not a Reddit alternative. I love the open source community, but sometimes the names of projects leave much to be desired. Lemmy isn’t the perfect name but it’s more memorable than kbin.

    • SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes….on a technical level. But the picture is bigger than that. Personally, I have a hunch that the choice of Rust is making Lemmy’s development slower. This seemed to be evidenced by the fact that Kbin has more functionality than Lemmy while having only been around for 2 months. Vs Lemmy’s 4 years. The Kbin dev has also been much more able to fix things on the fly during the surge in users. Whereas Lemmy will supposedly move off websocket use any day now.

      Adoptability isn’t something to be discounted. The fact that there any more people out there familiar with PHP may give Kbin an edge over time. And let’s be honest, in real-world test PHP can very often be faster then - less-than-mature-Rust codebase.

  • Wumbologist@lemmy.one
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve tried both. Here are some thoughts.

    • I like the more sorting options by different time points like last 6 or 12 hours on Kbin.

    • Seems easier to find Lemmy subs on Kbin that it is to find Kbin subs on Lemmy.

    • I don’t like that I can’t see what Kbin defederates from like I can on Lemmy.

    • I’m wary of large instances on the fediverse because of stability and being a potential target for defederation due to size (such as mastodon social).

  • Shyder @lemmy.fmhy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m in both, but I’m a Reddit refugee looking for a similar experience. 99% of my Reddit’s time was through the RIF app and Jeroba looks and feels the same, so currently I only use lemmy.

    I wouldn’t mind switching over to kbin if it gets better in the future since I can read everything from anywhere.

  • Ghost@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    I liked both but ultimately joined Lemmy over kbin because it seems like there’s more interest in building mobile apps for Lemmy. (Currently using Jerboa) Also like that my Lemmy instance is based on renewable energy which is nice.

  • Evono@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I tried Kbin and its way harder for me somehow searching other federated instanced content on Kbin than on lemmy.

    It feels like for Kbin you need to go first to lets say Lemmy.world and then check the list and copy the names of each then search it.

    on any lemmy instance i can simply search the things and find stuff of other instances way easier.

    also Lemmy is like WAY bigger of user base posts and comments.

  • Alexmitter@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    I first was on Lemmy, now on kbin. Kbin is just a much more nicer experience. Also it’s not developed by tankies who glorify f*cking Mao Zedong. Simple as that.

    • minorsecond@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      The tankie thing keeps pushing me away from lemmy, but lemmy seems to be the only software getting clients at the moment. So I’m torn. I want an iOS client badly, but I don’t want to support tankies.

      I suppose I shouldn’t sell out for a nice app though.

        • Ambiorickx@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          I agree it works well, but it annoys me that there seems to be no way to collapse comment threads, and on iOS, once you press a menu, it’s impossible to hide it again.

          Lemmy, on the other hand, is a shitshow on iOS.

  • freebrick@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    I like both. Currently on kbin because of the All bug on lemmy. My aim is to use both for a longer period.

    • Jarmer@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Is that where the all section just constantly keeps loading more and more and more and you can’t even use it because it’s flying downwards?

    • DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Think of it like Lemmy but with a different UI plus the ability to “tweet” on mastodon. I’m commenting from kbin right now, we can all see the same posts because it’s federated.

  • grus@kbin.social
    01·
    1 year ago

    Kbin just sounds cooler, dude.
    I mean, lemmy - that’s just lame with extra steps. Eww. Yuck. Yucky. Not cool. Actual cringe, tbh. 🤢
    Kbin. That’s like cool-beans, dude. Actually rad. And based. 😎
    Who doesn’t want to be cool? I tell you, nerds, that’s who. Do you want to be a nerd? Didn’t think so.
    Checkmate. Try proving me wrong (pro-tip: you can’t)