Love Reddit but tired of what's happening to it? We check out Lemmy and Kbin, two open-source fediverse alternatives that are growing fast.

A writeup in PCMag!

  • Bucky@lemmy.worldEnglish
    110·
    2 years ago

    I can’t get into calling subs “magazines”. Communities is much better.

    • Boiglenoight@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      2 years ago

      Just call them “clips.” /s Seriously though, the aesthetic of Kbin is its best feature, but the concept behind the threads seems. I dunno. Weird. Lemmy feels janky and basic, like old Reddit. 💗

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Same. This is just bizarre to me. Paper magazines aren’t as common in the world today as they used to be, but neither are they some ancient thing that has passed out of history, allowing the word to be used for pure metaphorical value. Maybe some people are young enough for it to be so, but certainly not me.

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    At the moment, I login on kbin.social and lemmy.world interchangeably, since both are growing, and both are kind of unstable, but thankfully I can read the exact same posts on both. Will probably settle on one of these, or a different one eventually

  • jsavage@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    I personally don’t like KBin’s UI. It’s an immediate turn-off for me. Text too small, vote buttons look weird. Also I just loaded the homepage and the top posts are “🤔🤔🤔”, “ich🚗iel”, “Every time I leave or enter the house”, and a generic meme. No thanks, there’s enough trash like that already on the Reddit homepage.

    I’m building my own Reddit alternative zsync.xyz. I’ll open source it in a week. Hoping to federate it one day and make it into a pcmag article. I def respect the Lemmy dev(s). To an outsider a Reddit clone might look trivial to build but it’s actually a ton of work, and of course an enormous chicken & egg problem to overcome to actually get any users.

  • RheingoldRiver@kbin.social
    11·
    2 years ago

    A little harsh on /kbin given that it’s been released for less than two months and the author doesn’t even mention this. Otherwise seems reasonable.

  • gunpachi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    I have not used kbin yet. Is there any feature that really makes it worth using over Lemmy ? I’m curious as I want to try it out sometime.

    P.S - I use Lemmy through wefwef

    • M-Reimer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      I have a few kbin communities subscribed from Lemmy and interaction works fine.

      If you don’t use the webinterface a lot, it probably doesn’t matter which one of the two you are using.

      • Jack.@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Lemmy had a better backend when I tried kbin the last time. And lemmy has just gotten better since then.

    • Brkdncr@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      Does lemmy use google or Facebook as an idp yet? That makes things pretty easy on kbin.social.

  • HidingCat@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    At least one mistake in there though, since you can definitely block instances in Kbin too. It’s not the most obvious though.

    • rideranton@kbin.social
      4·
      2 years ago

      At least one mistake in there though, since you can definitely block instances in Kbin too. It’s not the most obvious though.

      Also:

      • kbin does have an instance wide moderation log in the footer: https://kbin.social/modlog
      • kbin supports markdown, though it does not have a preview feature yet
      • kbin allows you to block users just like you can block magazines and domains, though there is no way to filter specific words (yet)
      • (probably a few more, but those were the ones that I noticed)

      @maxeddy