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    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.

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      1 year ago

      Really? Kbin as the name is what intrigued me initially over Lemmy. It’s actually inspired by Linux, the sbin directory to be specific.

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      1 year ago

      Speaking about names. What the hell is a “magazine”?? It’s like the kbin devs went out of their way to ensure they named everything to be as confusing to outsiders as possible.

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        1 year ago

        Kind of like how Lemmy made up communities? Lol you don’t call microblogs “toots” either. Seems every fediverse software has their own terminology.

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      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.

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    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.

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    1 year ago

    I think lemmy looks nicer visually. I’ll probably give kbin a try at some point.

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    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.

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    I came to kbin first when reddit shut down the /r/kbinmigration sub. Streisand effect.

    Later I learned it was an anti spam feature and not intentional, but the damage was done.

  • Shyder @lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    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.

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    It was the first one I knew about and I haven’t had a reason to switch over. I already knew about lemmy long before all of the reddit drama happened, so that was where I went a few days before the blackout. I had never even heard of kbin until after I’d already been on lemmy for a while. Also, rust > php, and calling communities “magazines” is weird.

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      I’ll agree that calling communities “magazines” is weird.

      The word reminds me of outdated (and overpriced) print periodicals or ammo holders. They may as well call them 8-tracks or cassettes. Maybe the word will evolve. “Sub” took on it’s own meaning after Reddit.

      “Fetch” still isn’t happening, so we’ll see.

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    Everyone in kbin is handsome and / or gorgeous! Everyone in Lemmy is a Lemmy user 😛 /s

    In all seriousness, kbin is developed by Ernest who is an extremely devoted and trustworthy dev. Lemmy is developed by CCP shills. That’s the reason I chose kbin.

    kbin is also getting steadily updated and I have a very good feeling about its stability and featureset in a few months taking a look at the GitHub.

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    1 year ago

    I prefer the UI of lemmy.world to Kbin, and it’s been smoother for me as well. But I’ve got an account at both. Still haven’t entirely made up my mind on which to make my “main”.

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      1 year ago

      I’m in the very same boat, but I find myself using kbin more every day. BUT Sync for Lemmy is comming, so…