I am torn. Lemmy feels slimmer and easier to use with a wider variety of apps. Kbin has an advantage of being an “all-in-one” solution for the Fediverse with a better UI.
That said I use Mastodon for microblogging, so Kbin having that built in only clutters the site in my particular use case. While Kbin has a better UI it’s also more drab in color and harder to navigate. Kbin also has this karma/points system which feels odd. It skews into the negative VERY easily and is displayed on your profile. I prefer Lemmy’s upvote/downvote system but doesn’t have a permanent karma/points system.
I’ve been reading Lemmy is growing much faster than Kbin, but then I hear that “it’s all bots” and not real growth.
Where do you stand on this? Where do you think you’ll find yourself when this all shakes out?
There’s multiple things to consider, both are great options, but right now I’m liking kbin more for these reasons:
- Better algorithm, when I go to my homepage I feel that the site is full of new, active content, where people are having discussions.
- Integration with Mastodon, I like to take a peek from time to time on the Microblog tab.
- No feed bug. Lemmy has a problem where it would show every single new post on top of the feed (I know this is being fixed)
Overall both Lemmy and kbin are in their infancy and I expect both to get better to a point where choosing between them won’t come down to which one of the two have less bugs, and more focused in the features and appearance you want, this ofc will change with the many apps being developed, since they will be vastly different.
I might end up in Lemmy or I might stay on kbin, it depends which one feels more “active” to me.kbin, because the developers aren’t communists, and don’t ignore humans rights violations.
edit: Being able to see who dislikes pointing out the denial of human rights violations (like @Jezebelley), is awesome! It’s a super cool feature!
Communism isn’t the problem there
I think you hit send before you finished typing.
I tried lemmy, I’ve been lectured about “orientalism”, Zelensky was constantly trashed talked about. Enough is enough…I left lemmy for kbin.
It’s not about the technology, it’s about the community. I prefer to restart from scratch on kbin.
Christ, what instance did you sign up on? Lemmygrad?
For sure Kbin. I keep trying Lemmy from time to time but between the UI and the inconsistent sorting algorithms over there I have chosen to stay here!
Agreed. Luckily the algorithm bug is being fixed in the next release.
Oh cool! The more improvements the better!
