I have been thinking which of the two should i use. If i understand fully i can still browse lemmy instances on kbin. And i can even check out mastodon users on it.

If this is the case, why would anyone choose lemmy instead of kbin? I assume there must be another aspects i don’t know of?

  • Pariscope@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I have been asking myself this same question. I like the general look and feel of kbin better, but have been drifting more toward Lemmy. The interface has been easier to use for some things like checking in on the communities/magazines I’ve subscribed to. I’ve also noticed missing entries on kbin when viewing the same community threads. Not sure what that is.

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    1 year ago

    I made an account in both and installed their websites as pwas on my phone. For lemmy (on lemmy.world) there is a bug/feature that constantly loads new shit no matter the sorting which at first made it unusable for me.

    This is supposed to be gone in 18.1 though but lemmy.world has issues upadating.

    Kbin PWA does not respect orientation lock which also really grinds my gears.

    So today I started looking into apps. Currently on wefwef PWA and its the best experience so far but needs more interface customisation eg thumbs on the right so I can properly take a wank and browse with one hand.

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    1 year ago

    For me there are 3 reasons for choosing Lemmy over Kbin.

    1. Kbin has karma system.
    2. Kbin is based on PHP.
    3. Comments on Kbin magazines when using copy url to fediverse are not public, but locked behind login.
  • tr00st@lemmy.tr00st.co.uk
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    1 year ago

    As a self-hoster, I attempted installs of both. They both had somewhat broken installation guides for Docker installs. Spent a night failing to get kbin running and pivoted and for Lemmy working in a couple of hours. Wish I had some big fancy reason, but kbin was just shortly more of a pain to sort.