I noticed that kbin has stalled in development recently and the ongoing problems with federation etc. made me use it even less for the past few weeks. I even spent more time on reddit than here.
Today, I decided to give my abandoned lemmy account a try and see how that goes.
As many others, I disliked the UI of lemmy, compared to kbin, but soon enough found this one https://p.lemmy.world and it’s been very smooth so far.
So yeah … hello from the other side of the fence 🍷
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I tried Kbin, but I don’t know why it just never clicked with me. I kind of like the barebones lemmy UI.
Also, the instance I’m on has an “old.reddit” style page that is really nice when I’m on PC.
Pretty much the same, captain.
Carry on, Ensign.
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There’s even an option to hide the fantasy Internet points entirely. I love that option because I find fantasy Internet point chasing completely risible.
‘point chasing’ e.g. karma farmers on reddit is fucking stupid, but I find the metric useful on an individual post. I think of them like an online extension of a facial expression: if I read a post attempting to explain something, and it’s got way more downvotes than up, the kinda tells me the poster is full of shit, which is especially useful in threads where I don’t know enough about the topic to actually identify the bullshit myself. Like a flat-earther trying to give a lecture to an auditorium of booing geological scientists - my clueless medic ass is going to be gauging the audience as much as the speaker.
Or, say I post some joke: if it gets a lot more upvotes than down, that tells me other folks folks got a kick out of it.
It’s just another tool to communicate - and communication is hamstrung right out the gate in a predominately typed medium, so I’ll take the crutch.
That is a valid viewpoint.
It’s not mine.
So I turn off the votes view. I have no idea if my votes are up or down. And I don’t care. I love having that choice too!
totaly agree. Additionally if I see a post/comment with racist/fascist/sexist views I want to know what the general consensus is. It makes a difference knowing that people disagree or support.
as a former karma-whore from reddit… I love the fake-internet-points system… It makes me feel special :-D
I started on kbin myself. It was mostly a population consideration, though I did like the downvote accounting. Community moderation is one thing Tildes does right, and that was a step in that direction.
I ultimately bailed when even the big magazines weren’t being moderated anymore (spam everywhere).
I preferred the kbin ui on pc originally but the phone apps and the release of “old reddit” style ui for lemmy got me to switch
I personally recommend https://a.lemmy.world if you’re going to use an alternative frontend.
wow alexandrite looks beautiful
Old habits die hard for me and I’m glad they’ve got mlmym on https://old.lemmy.world, it’s my default on the desktop now
If anyone is doing the same and misses the community bar customisation from RES, I cobbled together a little userscript to do this
Hopefully someone else finds it useful too
Wrt fediverse, you can keep using all of them at the same time. How cool is that!
Wow. Photon UI looks really nice. It’s a lot like Sync
Welcome back!
I started in Kbin. I think that the activity level was smaller in there, which made me swap. Another reason was that Lemmy feels nicer to use (I like its looks more and I found a neat app on the phone to use it. Didn’t find an app for Kbin).
Yes. The constant logouts were bad - a little on desktop but constantly on mobile, and needing to refresh/login spam 4x to get in sometimes. After awhile growth and activity also looked to be stalling out. I realized a bunch more communities I was missing out on were from Lemmy and I needed to make an account to fully interact.
When I found old.lemmy.world it was game over. I don’t think I’ll go back to my kbin account much anymore.
Kbin kept logging me out. At some point, it got so annoying, I deleted my bookmark.
If you’re not ready to leave yet mbin fork that integrates community fixes faster. Fedia switched to it.
I’ve heard about mbin, but as a developer myself I don’t think PHP is the suited language for those kinds of things, where performance and resource usage are just crucial. According to ernests recent post somewhere, they’re still struggling with infrastructure issues. And I’m afraid mbin will face the same issues sooner than later.
