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    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.

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      Speaking about names. What the hell is a “magazine”?? It’s like the kbin devs went out of their way to ensure they named everything to be as confusing to outsiders as possible.

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        Kind of like how Lemmy made up communities? Lol you don’t call microblogs “toots” either. Seems every fediverse software has their own terminology.

        Also it’s dev, singular. Kbin has been put together by only one dev. I personally find that damn impressive considering it’s functionally on par with Lemmy being only 2 months old to Lemmy’s 4 years.

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      Yes….on a technical level. But the picture is bigger than that. Personally, I have a hunch that the choice of Rust is making Lemmy’s development slower. This seemed to be evidenced by the fact that Kbin has more functionality than Lemmy while having only been around for 2 months. Vs Lemmy’s 4 years. The Kbin dev has also been much more able to fix things on the fly during the surge in users. Whereas Lemmy will supposedly move off websocket use any day now.

      Adoptability isn’t something to be discounted. The fact that there any more people out there familiar with PHP may give Kbin an edge over time. And let’s be honest, in real-world test PHP can very often be faster then - less-than-mature-Rust codebase.

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      I’ll agree that calling communities “magazines” is weird.

      The word reminds me of outdated (and overpriced) print periodicals or ammo holders. They may as well call them 8-tracks or cassettes. Maybe the word will evolve. “Sub” took on it’s own meaning after Reddit.

      “Fetch” still isn’t happening, so we’ll see.

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      Same for me. Pure laziness.

      I already put in a lot of time to figure this out, I need to rest for a bit before I jump into kbin.

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    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

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      That’s actually a negative for me, I don’t see how Mastodon UI would merge in a useful way with Lemmy UI for me. It’s like while I used to use reddit and discord for some communities, the reddit chat was completely uninteresting.

      I am in such a different frame of mind between lemmy and Mastodon.

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        yeah I have two accs rn. I end up spending way more time on lemmy- mostly cuz I’m having a hard time finding content on masto if that makes sense? On lemmy I can sort all/new and see a ton of posts to upvote and comment on, but I don’t know how to just explore on masto ^^; 9 times out of 10 I end up seeing the same posts over and over again

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    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.
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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I feel like Lemmy has more content, probably because it’s been around longer, so it’s a good base to build from.

    I’m also giving an answer to the other thread on Kbin, since I think there are good reasons to use that one as well. They’re both solid, and I’m using both regularly–often viewing posts from one service on the other. For me, it’s “yes AND,” not “no BUT.”

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      Genuine question here, how can Lemmy have more content if it’s all federated? Wouldn’t Kbin, despite being much younger, have all the same content?

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        It should be pretty similar, with the notable exception of defederation. Eg, beehaw users will see a lot less content because they blocked a very large number of instances, including some of the biggest ones.

        I think that bigger instances will also see more on /all, which I think is a massive flaw and usability issue. I’ve been experimenting today and it seems that you need someone on your instance subbed to a community for it to… Well, basically be usable to any degree whatsoever. Both kbin and Lemmy have absolutely horrible UX for communities on other instances that nobody on your instance have subbed to yet. I can’t stress enough how truly terrible the UX is. The community won’t show up in /all until subbed to, yet figuring out how to sub to it is hilariously difficult (seriously, go try it).

        So basically, you want the biggest instance you can find. Small instances should be avoided until this is improved (unless you don’t care about /all or ease of subscribing to new communities, I guess).