Lemmy or Kbin?
Lemmy or Kbin?
Obviously this will be a biased post becasue I'm asking on lemmy, but I wanted to hear opinions, since I find kbin's interface to be really awkward and all over the place
While I like the UI/UX experience of Kbin, I will still choose Lemmy for the more reddit-like experience that it offers. I find kbin's nomenclature of magazines as being equivalent to sub-reddits awkward. Furthermore, it's trying to be a blend of twitter and reddit. I like the general free/open source approach of one tool for one job rather than trying to do a bunch of different things sub-optimally.
Agree. I if I want a twitter-like experience I'll open Mastodon. Lets me keep separate identities too, which is nice.
I started off with Kbin, and it was great because it was initially more straightforward with a more sensible UI. But since they didn't release an API quickly enough, apps like Voyager came in, so I've switched to Lemmy.
It also looks like the UI/UX hasn't changed much when I logged into Kbin, so it feels significantly more stagnant. And once Sync for Lemmy hits the Play Store, I'm probably going to stick with it.
If you want to use a 3rd party app on your phone to browse, then Lemmy is the only choice.
I tried Kbin before I tried Lemmy, and I didn't really like the interface of Kbin much. I'm not really sure what else Kbin has going for it other than the interface. With Lemmy there are actually multiple different interfaces you can use. So as someone who likes choice, Lemmy is the one for me.
Why not both?
This is my choice too. I prefer Lemmy but it's down every once in a while and kbin hasn't been so far.
Lemmy for me.
I've casually browsed kbin a few times and the interface seems a bit scattered and confusing to me.
I also found Kbin's interface fairly awkward and all over the place. Lemmy's Reddit-style interface is more to my preference personally. If you're concerned about missing out on content from Kbin communities as I was when I first migrated, you can easily subscribe to Kbin magazines through the Lemmy Explorer, that way you'll still be able to see stuff from Kbin without having to deal with Kbin's UI.
I was trying to subscribe to kbin magazines the other day, but there's something weird going on. https://kbin.social/m/korean shows two posts, but https://lemmy.world/c/Korean@kbin.social shows none. Actually subscribing works but doesn't reveal anything.
Oh, I know what the issue there is. Apparently because Kbin is based on an older version of the ActivityPub protocol, when Kbin magazines are synced into Lemmy, posts from before the magazine was synced don't show up. The only posts that show up on Lemmy are ones made after the magazine is synced, unlike the way it works between Lemmy instances where everything is synced all at once. I'm not sure if there's anything the Lemmy devs can do to fix this. It might take Kbin switching to the latest version of the ActivityPub protocol for this to stop being an issue, but I'm unsure if the Kbin devs are willing to do that. They seem to be focusing on getting their API out right now.
Now it is Lemmy.
I tried both and for me kbin was a bit too busy. Lemmy is more simple and intuitive.
I use both, but overall I prefer kbin.
I like the UI much better (on mobile - I couldn't even tell you what either one looks like on desktop). The lemmy mobile UI is too disjointed for my tastes - it's essentially just a seemingly random assortment of buttons for a seemingly random assortment of functions. I've tried a few lemmy apps, but haven't been impressed, and I can't be arsed to wade through dozens of betas in the hope that one of them might actually appeal to me. Kbin's UI is fine the way it is, so that's that to me.
And I like kbin.social's "All" better than any of the lemmys I use (.world, .ninja and .one). Kbin.social has a pretty broad range of content, but generally without the botfarm instances, which is just what I want. Lemmy world (when it's working) has too much botspam for my tastes, and while I love lemmy.ninja just on principle, it has a relatively sparse and limited "All." Lemmy.one's "All" is pretty good, but the overall feel of the instance is a bit too weedy for my tastes.
And Ernest is awesome.
Both!
I want to avoid Lemmy on principle, because Lemmy's main developers are tankies.
kbin is okay overall, but I really don't like the weird terms (magazines, threads Vs posts Vs articles etc).
But the main reason I use Lemmy now is because of the mobile apps. When kbin has apps I will probably use kbin full time.