So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?

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)

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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

@SamXavia

Simple answer,

The ability to instantly hide viewed posts: https://greasyfork.org:4001/en/scripts/469175-kbin-hide-posts-after-voting/code

the better UI is just a plus ... I'm mostly browsing local instances and lemmy.world anyways

I'm currently trying both out, still deciding.....

@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.

I suspect I will eventually go to just one account. If this "Memmy" app essentially connects the two, that could be a good solution. Do you use your same account for both? I created separate. Here I am on Lemmy
https://sh.itjust.works/u/JK_Mooney

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.

I have kbin and beehaw(lemmy) and honestly every time I go to Beehaw, it errors out, serverside 50x errors. Sometimes I get a few link clicks, it's just so erratic. I know I need to try joining another instance, but I liked that one when it was accessible lol. kbin has been solid for me, so usually I lurk here. I know other lemmy instances must be stable, I just haven't tried them because kbin works for me.

Not really fond of things made by genocide-friendly ass-people.
So Kbin.

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

Federated authentication. UI on mobile was good enough.

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 ?

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

I don't really understand the difference, I think it's a shame that a Reddit replacement gets split into two camps in the Fediverse. At the very least, they should use the exact same data at the back end and interact with each other seamlessly. In either case, this is what you get in an open protocol. Maybe one or the other will win out in the long run.

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

lemmy never worked for me. kbin has a betyer ui amd i can also see mastadon threads

I don't really; I'm just hedging my bets. I have noticed that kbin doesn't seem to go "down" as often as my Lemmy instance; on the other hand, there are still some bugs going on with kbin and I don't like that you can't yet collapse comments in threads. (unless I've missed something.)

I think Kbin has a lot of potential. I also think changing the name to something more catchy would help it grow more although IDK.