I see a very small minority of people using Kbin, but I don’t understand why.

Is this just a coincidence and did some people choose Kbin over Lemmy or is there a good reason to use Kbin?

  • EROLoLICON@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I think kbin is more promising than lemmy. The admin seems a good guy, kind and levelheaded. Since a month ago, before the blackout, he build kbin by himself and since then someone even volunteered to help him polishing the site.
    The site looks polished but still in beta and they’re actively ironing out hundreds bugs and feature request by us users.
    Ultimately also the users are nice people. Many of us have donated money and right now the admin have enough money for nearly a year. Source: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/177112/kbin-project-management-costs-financing-future-plans

    • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Can you explain more about the politics bit? What specifically is different regarding how political discussions are handled over there?

  • tuto@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Apart from what has already been said (politics, basic UI) there are a couple more things worth mentioning:

    • Kbin’s interface is muuuch more customizable than lemmy’s: browsing form a web browser (desktop or mobile) let’s you modify your viewing experience as much as any mobile app for lemmy (but lemmly itself doesn’t). From infinite scrolling vs pages to font sizes and such.
    • kbin allows for (mastodon-like) boosting of posts, which is like a super-upvote that lemmy just doesn’t have.
    • on kbin you can subscribe to mastodon users aka federate with mastodon. Something that lemmy also can’t.

    Other than that only personal taste matters in the end, and both federate with eachother, so enjoy it from wherever you are.

      • Naminreb@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        This is a big one. There were some contributions from either instances or bots on my feed I didn’t like that I just blocked, and my feed is fine now. No need to ask for defederation of the whole community when you can do it yourself.

  • livus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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

    • 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

  • Chozo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Kbin also has Mastodon integration (though it’s still being worked on and isn’t in its final form yet), which I think is handy because I’m hoping that Kbin doesn’t defederate from Meta, so that I can also still have an account to keep in touch with people I care about who are going to be using Threads without having to manage another account elsewhere.

    I also prefer the layout to Kbin better. While the stock Lemmy layout is nice (it does a fantastic job of emulating the old.reddit layout), I like the fact that Kbin shows a little bit more text about each post. It also keeps more data public (like your votes and reputation scores), which I actually prefer being out in the open, as it helps weed out people who may be giving bad faith arguments in various discussions.