Asklemmy

Learned about Lemmy from Reddit but never heard of kbin until recently. That said, I like the name Lemmy a lot more than the name kbin. kbin sounds like a hex editor for KDE, not a Reddit alternative. I love the open source community, but sometimes the names of projects leave much to be desired. Lemmy isn't the perfect name but it's more memorable than kbin.

Honestly, I just like the UI better.

At the end of the day that’s a large reason to choose any of the federated platforms because as it matures we will seamlessly be able to communicate with each other. Be it Mastadon, Kbin, Lemmy, Pixelfed etc.

That’s what I love about federation. It won’t matter what platform we are on, we just choose the one that looks the best for us and can talk to EVERYBODY. It wouldn’t surprise me if down the road there is a better universal alternative that shows Mastodon, Lemmy/Kbin, Pixelfed content in their original format all in one instance (could be like tabs or all in one feed). I would personally use that but if anyone just wants to see posts in a Lemmy-like format they have the power to choose.

Rust > PHP

I tried Kbin and its way harder for me somehow searching other federated instanced content on Kbin than on lemmy.

It feels like for Kbin you need to go first to lets say Lemmy.world and then check the list and copy the names of each then search it.

on any lemmy instance i can simply search the things and find stuff of other instances way easier.

also Lemmy is like WAY bigger of user base posts and comments.

I just heard about Lemmy first. Maybe later I'll try kbin too.

Lemmy is the first one I heard about, and that's where I made my account. Kbin is also a much newer project, so I'm less confident that it'll be around in the mid-to-long term future than lemmy.world, and I'd rather not have to make a new account.

I liked both but ultimately joined Lemmy over kbin because it seems like there's more interest in building mobile apps for Lemmy. (Currently using Jerboa) Also like that my Lemmy instance is based on renewable energy which is nice.

I started with both at the same time and I spent far more time here. I don't know, if kbin still has the problem, but every single time I opened kbin, I had to do the whole cloudflare-process of waiting, check a box, wait again and then get redirected. Apart from that I prefer the layout here and since here are more users, there is always new content and it feels lively.

Lemmy has been around much longer right? Personally I'm using both, though kbin only very recently. That's the coolest thing about the fediverse to me; not only can lemmy instances federate and kbin instances federate, but a kbin instance can federate with a lemmy instance

Started on lemmy. Haven’t gotten annoyed yet and can’t currently be bothered to try yet another new thing.

I had some difficulty signing up for kbin and I also just had a preference for the layout of Lemmy. Plus I found iOS apps for Lemmy first (TestFlight, sure, but functional).

At this point because it’s all federated it’s more just Home Screen preference anyway, right?

I'd like to hear something about people who use both

1. Rust > PHP
2. At the moment, Lemmy is more stable & have workable Android Apps.
3. People who can use software regardless of the creator's political belief/worldview tend to be more open-minded and rational than purist who choose software only built by those who has same worldview with them even when it was inferior or lacking many features than alternatives.
4. People on Lemmy is diverse in their ideological/worldview, It makes conversation more interesting and less prone to be an echo chamber for one ideological believe.

I like both. Currently on kbin because of the All bug on lemmy. My aim is to use both for a longer period.

I'm in both, but I'm a Reddit refugee looking for a similar experience. 99% of my Reddit's time was through the RIF app and Jeroba looks and feels the same, so currently I only use lemmy.

I wouldn't mind switching over to kbin if it gets better in the future since I can read everything from anywhere.

1. Written in Rust
2. Android app(s) exist
3. Has all the kbin content anyway

I think lemmy looks nicer visually. I'll probably give kbin a try at some point.

I came to kbin first when reddit shut down the /r/kbinmigration sub. Streisand effect.

Later I learned it was an anti spam feature and not intentional, but the damage was done.

What a difference, we can talk to each other :F

Idk i just heard of lemmy first

I have accounts on 3 Lemmy instances and this one on kbin, right now I use kbin a bit more cause it‘s smoother for me, but if Lemmy apps mature faster I might use those more.

I never really got that attached to any of my Reddit accounts either, so that feels natural to me.

People started talking about the reddit API change and named lemmy as an alternative. So that's the one I checked out. Didn't here of kbin til I was already here.