Looks like the admin for kbin.lol has some pretty valid gripes with the current status of Kbin. I have to agree, you can tell the platform is not up to speed at all.

Kbin looks visually great but the backend just isn't there. Check out his statement, it's worth the read.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Apollo town? Does that have anything to do with the former Apollo app?

Interesting to say the least, I signed up for lemmy and it has its issues (they may have finally fixed sort by hot). I looked at kbin and saw a much cleaner and at the time active community and wondered if I should move over. Lemmy got pretty active today.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No affiliation to Christian Selig or the Apollo app that I’ve read. I’ve been on a couple of Lemmy instances and Kbin.social for about four weeks now (a couple of days after Christian posted about the API charges) and always found content and activity was much greater on Lemmy. All my Lemmy instances have about the same Active/Top listings (I didn’t use Hot sorting in Reddit and not using it with Lemmy, it’s not how I like to view).

I was drawn to the interface of Kbin like everyone else, but I quickly realized that the interface was buggy and clunky and not ready for prime time. It very well may perfect everything it is aiming to achieve. It appears they're trying to make it easy for users to interact with Mastodon style servers and Lemmy style servers, and joining the features of both worlds. That sounds pretty cool if it can be done right. But I want my votes to count, I want it to be easy to cross post or boost (these are different) and yes I'd love to interact with Mastodon also but only if those other things work correctly, that's just how I like to get into my threads and conversations while consuming posts.