I’ve been on Lemmy since the Reddit stuff happened. I also started using PeerTube. Now I am trying to explore more of the Fediverse and wanted to know what Kbin brings to the table compared to Lemmy.
Since you’re already familiar with lemmy, I’ll just highlight how Kbin diverges:
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downvotes are publicly visible
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there’s a double-upvote called “boost” that also acts as a retweet
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it interacts with Mastodon instances natively as well as lemmy ones
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munis are called “magazines” and located at /m/ instead of /c/, which csn break some links which would be instance-neutral on lemmy
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there’s only a web interface, AFAIK, no mobile apps
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active development by one sole individual who’s very involved
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blocking whole instances is enabled at the user level
And additionally you can do everything you can on lemmy, including self-host an instance.
One fun thing about kbin is that websites that get posted frequently can be followed or blocked like their own magazine. This means if you’ve got a bunch of bot accounts posting links to the same dumb site, you can just go to the magazine of that site and just block that instead of playing whack-a-mole with bots.
There is a mobile app called Artemis that works well, and has recently opened it’s beta to the public, go check it out at @ArtemisApp.
FYI, I’ve tried figuring out why people down-vote my posts and who does it. For example if that’s all users from one specific instance. And every time I go to KBin to figure it out, the down-votes aren’t visible. It’ll just say 0. Sometimes a measly 1 but I’ve said something controversial and it should be 10. But it knows nearly all the upvotes. So I don’t know if they stopped showing Lemmy downvotes, just their own… Or everyone down-voting me is from a single instance that is defederated with kbin… Idk. But it isn’t just as simple as ‘downvotes are publicly visible’. I think in theory they should be.
Downvotes don’t federate currently. I think it’s a work in progress though
I don’t think this is true either. I just down-voted a post on lemmy.world from my home-instance discuss.tchncs.de. And it shows up here, on lemmy.world and also on lemmy.ml.
Or do you mean they’re not implemented on kbin?
Kbin isn’t federating them is what I meant. Sorry
active development by one sole individual who’s very involved
There are lots of devs contributing to the project, but only one who’s processing prs right now. There’s mention of it on kbinmeta.
blocking whole instances is enabled at the user level
I think you just sold me on kbin.
munis are called “magazines” and located at /m/ instead of /c/, which csn break some links which would be instance-neutral on lemmy
This one sound easy enough to fix though, just set up a redirect on the web server. I think that’s how it works.
e: NEvermind turns out blocking a domain doesn’t block the users so there’s no fucking point to it.
If it’s any consolation, personally blocking instances is one of the most requested features of Lemmy and will likely be introduced in a future version.
I can hope.
Interaction with mastodon must be why they always have so many hashtags, TIL!
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Kbin provides a platform for both mastodon-style “tweets” and lemmy-style “posts” AFAIK.
That’s pretty much it.
You can actually see Lemmy posts on Mastodon, for example this post appears here: https://mastodon.social/@MagneticFusion@lemm.ee/111081376751229453
If someone on Mastodon replies there it’ll also show up here, and it pings the users they’re replying to here by default.
Edit: I just realized that Mastodon redirects to Lemmy when you click that link. You can search for OP’s username on https://mastodon.social and you’ll find their profile if you want to see how it appears on Mastodon.
Lemmy has more content but KBin looks better to me still. Posts have a much clearer divide which I just can’t get past in Lemmy.
Frontpage differences: https://imgur.com/gallery/YfLFTd3
I’ve switched to Photon for the UI. So much better.
That can be different based on what instance your on. They can use different displays. (I don’t know the right term. Client, front-end, browser? Edit: interface. Duh. Not sure why I lost that word.) the KBin front-end you posted looks fairly similar to the display I’m using for Sync (which is customizable). Basically, what it looks like doesn’t matter much. You can make it look different if you like.
Lemmy loves talking about Lemmy.