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Now that you've used Lemmy and /kbin which do you prefer and why? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Jezebelley@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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I am torn. Lemmy feels slimmer and easier to use with a wider variety of apps. Kbin has an advantage of being an "all-in-one" solution for the Fediverse with a better UI.

That said I use Mastodon for microblogging, so Kbin having that built in only clutters the site in my particular use case. While Kbin has a better UI it's also more drab in color and harder to navigate. Kbin also has this karma/points system which feels odd. It skews into the negative VERY easily and is displayed on your profile. I prefer Lemmy's upvote/downvote system but doesn't have a permanent karma/points system.

I've been reading Lemmy is growing much faster than Kbin, but then I hear that "it's all bots" and not real growth.

Where do you stand on this? Where do you think you'll find yourself when this all shakes out?

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[–] reitoei@kbin.social 101 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Prefer kbin. Only downside is the "hamburger" menu and logo are linked. My muscle memory wants to treat the logo as a link to a front page, not a dropdown (on mobile). But that's just me.

Used lemmy. Just not that into it, even though I follow a lot of their communities. Kbin feels nicer.

[–] nevernevermore@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

The "home button" being hidden behind the hamburger menu and the fact that I can't collapse comment threads are my only 2 QoL issues, otherwise it all works great for a product that's only like 6 weeks old lol

There's just a polish to this site that Lemmy instances don't have

[–] relative_iterator@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m on iOS and have the site added to my homepage as an app. There’s no way to refresh so I’m constantly falling into this trap 😩

[–] Freehours9@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I show the top bar and just tap “subscribed” or whatever to refresh.

[–] hawdini@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

That's the solution I've ended up going with too. Hoping to get my hands on the iOS Beta of Artemis soon, though.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would also be nice to have a "context" button on comments in your profile so you can quickly see your comment surrounded by the comments you were interacting with, like Reddit did. Right now I'm having to go back to the original thread and find my comment to see the sub-thread it was part of and remember what it was we were talking about.

Also having trouble seeing comment reply notifications from instances outside of kbin. They don't show up at all and I am unable to see if people are replying to them. Have to go back to the original thread again.

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

This is really the only fair I'm struggling with, wick access to the thread content before replying is important. I'm trying to avoid commenting on similar threads atm so I don't accidentally include something from a different thread