It looks like kbin.social is in the final stages of migrating their site, and merging a whole bunch of improvements. Having their ~5k users federating with us again will be nice
That’s great, it’s been a bit odd not being able to have access to half the fediverse.
Hi from kbin!
@Barbarian so that’s why I couldn’t follow anything there.
Indeed, it will be interesting to see what will happen.
So KBin isn’t Lemmy? But it federated with Lemmy? Also, I see Mastodon federated with Lemmy, but what’s the point of that?
Kbin and lemmy are compatible but different projects
Mastodon users who want to stay on mastodon can subscribe to communities on lemmy and see each post as a tweet in mastodon
It’s just another UI basically. I like Kbin a lot more than Lemmy aesthetically and it was easier to get used coming directly from Reddit. Also early on there was only one instance (there’s like 3-5 now? I’m on Kbin.run) so it was a lot easier for people who didn’t understand how it works to use.
I’m considering migrating when that happens, as then I have no need for Mastodon, I can just have everything on one site…
Same. I’m trying to decide what I like more.
Part of me thinks I’d prefer to have two seperate accounts - one here, one on Mastodon.
The thing is, I just really prefer the tree view of Lemmy/Kbin…
I feel the same.
I do like the microblogging platform for dumb chatter and quck updates (like new music coming out, for example). But in general, I much prefer threaded comment trees.
kbin seems rather promising.
Haven’t really played around with it much since the federation part wasn’t working. Anyone been using it more and care to chime in with their experiences compared to Lemmy?
The only reason federation wasn’t working was because they had to turn on CloudFlare protection just to keep the site from crashing. That interfered with federation. Assuming they’re able to upgrade enough to handle the traffic, they’ll federate as easily as lemmy does.
It has excellent potential. It has only been around about a month and has quickly received a lot of interest and, from what I’ve read, there has been a surge in code contributions. I think it will be the preferred platform alt-Reddit platform once Kbin resolves its more significant issues and starts adding some QoL features.
I haven’t really used it, so this is all second-hand:
As far as I understand, it’s a younger project with more papercuts than Lemmy, but more features. Instead of just being a link aggregator like Reddit/Lemmy, it’s also got microblog functionality so it plays better with Mastodon. For users of Mastodon, having a one-stop-shop for both services is pretty handy.
It’s much harder and more problematic to set up kbin instances, so almost everyone just uses kbin.social. This means it’s a very centralized fediverse platform compared to Lemmy, but that might be seen as an advantage to some.
