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kbin seems rather promising.
Haven't really played around with it much since the federation part wasn't working. Anyone been using it more and care to chime in with their experiences compared to Lemmy?
They're called toots in Mastodon and yeah, I'm not really a fan either. Which is why I'm on the Lemmy side.
I also use Mastodon, but it's just a very different format to posts on Lemmy.
The only reason federation wasn't working was because they had to turn on CloudFlare protection just to keep the site from crashing. That interfered with federation. Assuming they're able to upgrade enough to handle the traffic, they'll federate as easily as lemmy does.
Yeah, I saw that. Just thinking general usage when everything's working as intended.
Their UI looks nice at least and it seems to have quite a few users.
How long has federation not been working? I've only been here a few days.
I haven't really used it, so this is all second-hand:
As far as I understand, it's a younger project with more papercuts than Lemmy, but more features. Instead of just being a link aggregator like Reddit/Lemmy, it's also got microblog functionality so it plays better with Mastodon. For users of Mastodon, having a one-stop-shop for both services is pretty handy.
It's much harder and more problematic to set up kbin instances, so almost everyone just uses kbin.social. This means it's a very centralized fediverse platform compared to Lemmy, but that might be seen as an advantage to some.
Yeah, I can see how that centralization could be both a positive and a negative. Sounds kind of nice to have a central point to then access the more spread out nature of Lemmy for instance. But then again, it's vulnerable instead.. not sure what I prefer to be hontest.
I'm probably too new to the fediverse to have an educated opinion yet!
@nlm @Barbarian Yes, me and @sj_zero have been having lots of trouble getting #Kbin to federate properly
It has excellent potential. It has only been around about a month and has quickly received a lot of interest and, from what I've read, there has been a surge in code contributions. I think it will be the preferred platform alt-Reddit platform once Kbin resolves its more significant issues and starts adding some QoL features.