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[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] garrettw87@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

kbin sounds like a hex editor for KDE

That's what I needed to hear today. genius

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] my_hat_stinks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Community is descriptive though, they're literally communities centered around some topic. Magazine only works in a much more abstract sense.

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[–] SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Really? Kbin as the name is what intrigued me initially over Lemmy. It’s actually inspired by Linux, the sbin directory to be specific.

[–] sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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 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 any more people out there familiar with PHP may give Kbin an edge over time. And let’s be honest, in real-world test PHP can very often be faster then - less-than-mature-Rust codebase.

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[–] r_ffer23@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I just heard about Lemmy first. Maybe later I'll try kbin too.

[–] Ghost@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Evono@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Naminreb@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The syntax is slightly different in Kbin: @community

Also, you need to do it from the all magazines search bar.

That made it work.

[–] pipipopo@lemmy.pipipopo.pl 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What a difference, we can talk to each other :F

[–] autumn@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think lemmy looks nicer visually. I'll probably give kbin a try at some point.

[–] asimplefriedegg@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

I found a specific Lemmy instance that I wanted to join. For what I use it for the format suits me better but if not for this instance I probably would've been on kbin just cuz it seems easier to interact with mastodon through it

[–] Shyder@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I came to kbin first when reddit shut down the /r/kbinmigration sub. Streisand effect.

Later I learned it was an anti spam feature and not intentional, but the damage was done.

[–] goforliftoff@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Started on lemmy. Haven’t gotten annoyed yet and can’t currently be bothered to try yet another new thing.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] freebrick@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like both. Currently on kbin because of the All bug on lemmy. My aim is to use both for a longer period.

[–] Jarmer@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that where the all section just constantly keeps loading more and more and more and you can't even use it because it's flying downwards?

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[–] shadowblade_chaos@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] root_beer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Same. I’ve noticed that federation isn’t always complete so you may as well be in both, at least for now

[–] jerome@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't signup for lemmy, the submit wheel spins and spins

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[–] s4if@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
  1. Rust > PHP
  2. At the moment, Lemmy is more stable & have workable Android Apps.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
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