Asklemmy

Honestly, when I first came here, I entirely expected that Reddit would eventually cave and I'd return to it. I expected the Fediverse to fail. But instead Reddit has doubled down and the Fediverse has rapidly gotten considerably better. I'm intending to stay here.

Though admittedly I do worry about some smaller subs. Eg, my local city sub was fairly active on Reddit and was a great place to get local recommendations, learn about stuff going on, etc. I ended up making the community myself and am trying to seed some posts, but there's yet to be any other subscribers (though this does remind me to go post about it in subs for the province).

Sounds like the Streisand Effect is working.

Interesting. Up until a few days ago, there was a subreddit devoted to Reddit alternatives. It's how I learned about kbin and other options.

Some of the posts were, let's say, suspiciously negative. Lemmy/kbin were supposedly impossible to sign up for unless you had at least 2 degrees in CS. (I managed, somehow) Oh, and lemmy is run by tankies. (Wouldn't care if it were). And it looks like hot garbage. (I like it well enough. It's easier on the eyes than new or old reddit imo)

It seemed like there were too many alternatives to make a rational choice, but ALSO "they all suck so don't bother." It sounded overwhelming, but I just said fuckit and picked one.

I wasn't expecting a fully formed set of communities and content or a perfectly polished interface. And I wasn't expecting the interface to be filled with tons of features or to have no learning curve. This is actually a lot nicer that what I expected, which was a very new/basic site that will need to do a lot of growing.

I didn't know there were other reddit like federated apps out there, my bad.

While you're on kbin, the servers share basically everything under the hood, so the distinction isn't that strong. Compared to Lemmy, you'd see a different interface and some features may differ, but the underlying content is basically the same whether you're on kbin or Lemmy. So despite being different products, it's basically one big community. The likes of Mastodon are technically in there too, but the threading structure of kbin and Lemmy means you'll mostly see those two products sharing content.

Though note that the specific site you're on does control things like the sorting of posts. What's hot for a kbin user might not be for a Lemmy user. Similarly, sites could hide or block some kinds of content if they want to. Eg, I think kbin probably did something to filter porn off the front page, cause I don't see porn anymore unless I look for it. Beehaw is another good example here. It's a Lemmy instance that decided to block the biggest other Lemmy servers to limit access to their communities.

TL;DR: same content, different interface for viewing and interacting with the content.

Same. I think I only have the kbin and am not sure if I have the lemmy. I keep seeing posts like this talking about it so I must be. Fuck am I old?

The way it should work is everything can interact with everything unless its defederated.

chapotraphouse?