I noticed that kbin has stalled in development recently and the ongoing problems with federation etc. made me use it even less for the past few weeks. I even spent more time on reddit than here.

Today, I decided to give my abandoned lemmy account a try and see how that goes.

As many others, I disliked the UI of lemmy, compared to kbin, but soon enough found this one https://p.lemmy.world and it's been very smooth so far.

So yeah ... hello from the other side of the fence 🍷

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I personally recommend https://a.lemmy.world if you're going to use an alternative frontend.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? Alexandrite is the best UI to me too. Its best feature is you don't have to change page while opening posts. It just opens in one side of the page.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Alexandrite is what the reddit redesign should have been. It's just a shame that the company didn't give one single shit about actually making a user friendly desktop experience.

[–] bappity 5 points 1 year ago

wow alexandrite looks beautiful

[–] 9point6 1 points 1 year ago

Old habits die hard for me and I'm glad they've got mlmym on https://old.lemmy.world, it's my default on the desktop now

If anyone is doing the same and misses the community bar customisation from RES, I cobbled together a little userscript to do this

Hopefully someone else finds it useful too