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.

Rust > PHP

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

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 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'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.

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.

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

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

I found a specific Lemmy instance that I wanted to join. For what I use it for the format suits me better but if not for this instance I probably would've been on kbin just cuz it seems easier to interact with mastodon through it

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

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.

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

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.

I'm torn as well. I find it easier to navigate Lemmy but Kbin's interface feels much more polished.

As someone who wants to self-host an instance, which would you guys recommend? I've been reading through the documentation for both and Lemmy seems easier to install. Does anyone have experience with both? I'm interested to know how well they scale in terms of performance.

edit: And to add, I'm not a fan of kbin's "microblog" and "magazine" is a strange word for "community".

What’s a kbin?

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.