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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[–] samokosik 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Definitely it’s bad when there are many alternatives with many instances. Community will become fragmented

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

It's a good thing, when federation is working properly. It spreads the load over many instances and the users can still converse across instance boundaries without issue.

So the community is the federated instances for all instances connected regardless of the software being used.

[–] samokosik 1 points 1 year ago

yes, just it needs to be seamless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No many alternatives does not fragment the community.

[–] samokosik 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it does. Imagine that some time ago, everyone was on reddit. Now the people who leave reddit split between many lemmy instances and kbin. In addition, some will stay on reddit.

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

No it doesn't. On lemmy or kbin or lolite you can have as many instances as you want across those platforms and the communities, comments and posts are all shared.

I'm on lemmy but I can post in kbin communities and interact with their users. I can view posts from lemmy on mastodon ( and the reverse once the devs get around to it)

[–] samokosik 1 points 1 year ago

As long as the content is shared, it’s all good