Moving to: m/AskMbin!

Lemmy wouldn't let me create an account after several attempts.

I feel like the Hot/Active short is vastly better on KBin than Lemmy. I know Lemmy has an open bug regarding the Hot sort, so maybe that will change. But as it stands, I feel like I am seeing much more meaningful content in KBin, even though it's all federated.

When the blackout came, Lemmy had some dissent (people couldn’t fully recommend it). A community about Kbin got banned and I came and looked at it. I just liked the way it looked.

Took a bit to get used to it, but the layout makes sense and it made me look into Mastodon.

Once federation kicked in, I could easily see posts from everywhere here, and the local magazines had nice people. Didn’t see a reason to look elsewhere.

I can’t speak to “why not Lemmy”, but genuinely I like it here and don’t see a reason to go elsewhere

I like the looks and the features of kbin. I looked at lemmy a year ago but the whole communist vibe on the, then only, instances was too much for me. There are more "normal" instances now, but I still gravitated towards kbin more.

Maybe it's nostalgia from my vbulletin/phpbb days...

Mainly better UI, less questionable dev, and better support with mastodon if I chose to browse mastodon.

Kbin has access to lemmy stuff and mastodon stuff without needing multiple accounts/sites/apps.

Also I heard some rumors about tankies and that sounds like drama I'd like to avoid. I believe there are other instances not involving them but it's confusing about what instance to sign up on when you're new.

I like the layout, and I really like the ability to microblog at a magazine for more casual posts that don't truly deserve a whole thread of their own.

If I'm going to post "new event x starting on y date with z rewards, discuss here" I'll make that a proper formal thread. If I'm going to post "I thought the new event was cute, though they could have done abc better" I'll make that a microblog.

1. Involving microblogs is very interesting and I eager to see how it opens up more discussions after Kbin grows bigger.
2. Solarized light theme looks very nice!

Because I applied to 3 Lemmy instances and never got anything more that the spinning icon when trying to log in. I'm glad I ended up at kbin.social, though.

The layout of Kbin is so much better Lemmy was just confusing as heck.

Because I'm dumb.

Not that "signing up for kbin was a dumb move"; more that I was too dumb to understand the front page full of technical bullshit on the Lemmy landing site.

I started to skim it and went "Wow, ok, this is complicated, I guess I'll have to figure it out later; I only have about thirty minutes right now."

Then I clicked on a link to kbin, and there was content, and a login button, and a sign up button, and a quick registration page, and bang! I'm on kbin commenting on cat pictures. The only adjustment I had to make to my browsing habits was using my middle mouse button to click links instead of my left button (to open them in a new tab, which I had set Reddit to do by default).

Beehaw was the same way, so I signed up there, too, but their web UI doesn't work great for me. Sorting by "local" and "active" only shows me stuff from yesterday through last week, but sorting by anything else floods my feed with a dozen new topics every five seconds that automatically scroll everything down. I don't even have enough time to read a longish thread title before it's rudely shoved off the bottom of my screen in favor of six posts from some random citrus-appreciation instance, or something. So I'm going to check back there in a month or two, because I like the on screen layout better.

Better layout, and it was showing me all the Lemmy threads anyway.

• User interface
• Microblog

I liked KBin for including other fediverse posts in the feed, and slightly the UI. I went through the TOS and some Lemmy instances I couldn’t even find them.

Frankly I have trust issues lol. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do the thing that most people seemed to be flocking to. And kbin seems to have more features and is already its own thing, already has an identity, isn't trying to replace an existing social media channel

Happy here so far

tried them both out without an account and kbin was better. lemmy was unusable without an account. so I made a kbin account.

Mostly #3. It looks nicer and seems to work better. And it happily also means I don't have to deal with #5 because ick!

Got tired of the Lemmy front page bugs (the one where new posts come flooding in, and the one where hot/active stops working until the server gets restarted). Kbin front page "just works."

(at least until today, when the entire front page became Sync is coming to Lemmy)

I started on Beehaw, but Lemmy had some automatic refresh thing that I could not turn off anywhere so I came to kbin.

I was able to subscribe to discussions on Beehaw using Kbin ; I wasn't able to do that using Lemmy, for whatever reason (probably me, but who knows for sure)
Anyway, Kbin works, so I'm using it.