Many might not know, but the developers of Lemmy are communist tankies - and i’m not joking - that spread propagranda and misinformation. They for example deny the genocide of the Uighurs in China as it is a “hoax perpetated by the western propagandists”.

Now, we don’t know where the creator of Kbin stands, but hopefully they aren’t as controversial. As how I see it all the attention they are getting after the great Reddit escape is going to get quite a bit backtracked when all the tankie stuff starts to get a apparent and drives people away again.

Honestly I’d feel the most comfertable with something as close as possible to Reddit, like a one plattform company connected to the fediverse, instead of umbrella plattforms like Kbin, Mastodon, Pixelfed Etc.

But I am hopeful for Kbin and we will see over time where the Kbin creator goes. Luckily as it is the fediverse I can just jump ship to a different project if I see things going to wrong way lol

  • Errant@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I really like the direction and vibe here far better than what’s going on with Lemmy. Beehaw seems to have less skeletons in their closet, but it’s hard for me not to be turned off of Lemmy instances as a whole with some of the issues. Beehaw is also limiting community creation at the moment which I totally understand their perspective on but makes it less useful in terms of what I am personally looking for.

    I think Lemmy is ready for the moment that’s happening right now but I have a hard time seeing it as a solution with some of the things lingering under the surface.

    …been through some situations like this before with platforms/communities ending and I really think the best thing we can do is be the change we want to see. Create and use magazines on kbin. Engage with people and be part of building things up as opposed to waiting for others to do it. As a non-dev, that’s really all we can do. It’s also something that can make a big impact.