Learned about Lemmy from Reddit but never heard of kbin until recently. That said, I like the name Lemmy a lot more than the name kbin. kbin sounds like a hex editor for KDE, not a Reddit alternative. I love the open source community, but sometimes the names of projects leave much to be desired. Lemmy isn’t the perfect name but it’s more memorable than kbin.
kbin sounds like a hex editor for KDE
That’s what I needed to hear today. genius
Anyone who doesn’t get this joke is not going to care about the difference.
Speaking about names. What the hell is a “magazine”?? It’s like the kbin devs went out of their way to ensure they named everything to be as confusing to outsiders as possible.
Kind of like how Lemmy made up communities? Lol you don’t call microblogs “toots” either. Seems every fediverse software has their own terminology.
Also it’s dev, singular. Kbin has been put together by only one dev. I personally find that damn impressive considering it’s functionally on par with Lemmy being only 2 months old to Lemmy’s 4 years.
Community is descriptive though, they’re literally communities centered around some topic. Magazine only works in a much more abstract sense.
Holy shit it all makes sense now! I’ve been seeing posts and comments randomly talking about magazines for ages now with absolutely no idea what any of them are going on about. Didn’t realise it was a Kbin thing. That’s one of the downsides of Federation I suppose, sometimes shit just gets weird.
Really? Kbin as the name is what intrigued me initially over Lemmy. It’s actually inspired by Linux, the sbin directory to be specific.
Rust > PHP
Yes….on a technical level. But the picture is bigger than that. Personally, I have a hunch that the choice of Rust is making Lemmy’s development slower. This seemed to be evidenced by the fact that Kbin has as much if not more functionality than Lemmy while having only been around for 2 months vs Lemmy’s 4 years. The Kbin dev has also been much more able to fix things on the fly during the surge in users. Whereas Lemmy will supposedly move off websocket use any day now.
Adoptability isn’t something to be discounted. The fact that there are many more people out there familiar with PHP may give Kbin an edge over time. And let’s be honest, in real-world tests PHP can very often be faster then any less-than-mature-Rust codebase.
I was curious about Kbin until I read this comment.
Probably but anything > node.
People started talking about the reddit API change and named lemmy as an alternative. So that’s the one I checked out. Didn’t here of kbin til I was already here.
This. It shouldn’t matter anyway as long as you’re on a properly federated instance.
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I liked both but ultimately joined Lemmy over kbin because it seems like there’s more interest in building mobile apps for Lemmy. (Currently using Jerboa) Also like that my Lemmy instance is based on renewable energy which is nice.
I just heard about Lemmy first. Maybe later I’ll try kbin too.
Started on lemmy. Haven’t gotten annoyed yet and can’t currently be bothered to try yet another new thing.
Same for me. Pure laziness.
I already put in a lot of time to figure this out, I need to rest for a bit before I jump into kbin.
I tried Kbin and its way harder for me somehow searching other federated instanced content on Kbin than on lemmy.
It feels like for Kbin you need to go first to lets say Lemmy.world and then check the list and copy the names of each then search it.
on any lemmy instance i can simply search the things and find stuff of other instances way easier.
also Lemmy is like WAY bigger of user base posts and comments.
The syntax is slightly different in Kbin: @community
Also, you need to do it from the all magazines search bar.
That made it work.
It’s really easy to check out these various Fediverse projects, just go to an instance, don’t even have to create an account to check it out. I had Lemmy bookmarked for a long time because it was mentioned as an alternative to Reddit, but never checked it out. I had no idea what ActvityPub was all about and was really wowed by it when I looked into it. It’s like, man, I should have got on the Fediverse a long time ago.
Anyway you can access most content from most any platform in the Fediverse to it’s just a matter of trying the projects to see what you like the best. I like Lemmy a lot for its interface design, but if you like Kbin better, use that.
I have to admit Lemmy is still a bit rough around the edges as far as browser access, but it works well enough and I expect it will get a better and more feature rich as it matures. I don’t use mobile much for internet access myself, but I hope that mobile apps for it can also develop quickly as that will be really important for its adoption.
What a difference, we can talk to each other :F
It was the first one I knew about and I haven’t had a reason to switch over. I already knew about lemmy long before all of the reddit drama happened, so that was where I went a few days before the blackout. I had never even heard of kbin until after I’d already been on lemmy for a while. Also, rust > php, and calling communities “magazines” is weird.
I’m in both, but I’m a Reddit refugee looking for a similar experience. 99% of my Reddit’s time was through the RIF app and Jeroba looks and feels the same, so currently I only use lemmy.
I wouldn’t mind switching over to kbin if it gets better in the future since I can read everything from anywhere.
I’m in both, so…
Same. I’ve noticed that federation isn’t always complete so you may as well be in both, at least for now
I can’t signup for lemmy, the submit wheel spins and spins
- Rust > PHP
- At the moment, Lemmy is more stable & have workable Android Apps.
- People who can use software regardless of the creator’s political belief/worldview tend to be more open-minded and rational than purist who choose software only built by those who has same worldview with them even when it was inferior or lacking many features than alternatives.
- People on Lemmy is diverse in their ideological/worldview, It makes conversation more interesting and less prone to be an echo chamber for one ideological believe.
