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[–] Cyder@lemmy.one 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it's nothing, but Reddit seems particularly sensitive towards kbin.

[–] vyvanse@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think its interface is so much more similar to Reddit it scares them 🀞

[–] gh0stcassette@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Tbh lemmy seems more reddity to me. Kbin has the whole microblogging thing too, which differentiates it more imo, tho kbin does seem to be faster and less glitchy (when the servers are up lol)

[–] nyander 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kinda wish Jerboa worked with Kbin tho.

[–] gh0stcassette@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Same, though you can follow all the kbin instances from any lemmy account federated with kbin, which is what I do (this is my kbin account, but I'm still subbed to all the same stuff on my lemmy accounts, except my lemmy.world account, which is basically useless since the beehaw defederation, so I don't use it anymore)

[–] TheRealBoner@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I agree, at least on mobile. I tried both and Lemmy feels like the natural alternative. Kbin reminds me more of old Reddit in UI, but Lemmy reminds me of Apollo UI.

[–] a-man-from-earth@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why Kbin feels more like Reddit to me. I was always using old on desktop, and RiF on-the-go.

[–] TheRealBoner@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that makes sense! I feel like this is why the fediverse might actually work especially well during this battle, being that the battle is literally β€œeverybody uses the site differently and now all of the ways you love to use the site are going away” (obviously not old Reddit but you get the picture)

[–] gh0stcassette@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair, I only ever used slide for reddit until it started getting glitchy and refused to show gifs a year or so ago, then used sync. Lemmy has a great mobile UI very reminiscent of the old 3rd party reddit apps

[–] TheRealBoner@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Boost was my favorite when I was on Android. I think the only thing I miss are gestures to vote and collapse comments, but the controls are set up well enough to make it a non issue. Props to the lemmy devs

[–] vyvanse@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

the mlem app is so close to Apollo! I hope we can get something like it for kbin

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Depends which instance you're on. Lemmy.ml was giving me lots of problems, but I get the feeling the lemmy.ee admin is really on top of things so that's my main now.

[–] MartianInAHumansBody@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone suggesting a RIF like client got Lemmy is what got me to make the jump over. If Apollo and/or RIF just support other communities, it's enough to steal a lot of the anti y users

[–] gh0stcassette@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Someone on github is making a translation layer to convert reddit API calls to Lemmy API calls. If that ends up working well, it could be as easy as changing the API URL to make reddit clients work for lemmy