• Meldrik
    27•1 year ago

    It’s clear that people prefer Lemmy over Kbin, for some reason. Over 2k users in the Lemmy community vs. only 900 on Kbin.

    • @GamingChairModel
      10•1 year ago

      for some reason

      I joined a bunch of instances (including kbin) with a bunch of different usernames, and have mostly stopped visiting kbin. The default browser interface isn’t as good: no collapsing comments, unintuitive displays of what magazine/community you’re on (thread links weirdly prioritize telling you which instance hosts the community rather than which of that instance’s local communities it is), etc.

      This UI/UX stuff matters, I think. After all, a big part of the reddit migration was prompted by users being forced off of their preferred interface.

      • pgetsos
        1•1 year ago

        There are some great userscripts to check out for enhancing Kbin with collapsible comments etc until the;kimplement them natively btw

    • @dimlo
      9•1 year ago

      it is quite difficult to use kbin to aay the least, as the user interface is more friendly here

      • @[email protected]
        6•1 year ago

        The UI for both is just reddit. And Kbin has a PWA that functions like a native app. The only issue I’ve found (on my phone at least), is some formatting issues with certain buttons.

        • Meldrik
          0•1 year ago

          Lemmy also has PWA and functions pretty well. On top of that, it has a ton of native apps afaik.

          • @[email protected]
            4•1 year ago

            The Kbin PWA is fine, but the native apps really give Lemmy a leg up. There are some genuinely fantastic apps like Connect and Liftoff that Kbin can’t match right now.

    • @BaddDadd
      8•1 year ago

      I hate the way they handle images. I was browsing kbin on my phone, and they show images 3 or 4 times as wide as tall. They put a tiny little thumbnail of the original image that fits in there, on a background of a blurred version of a strip of the image. It looks awful, and you can’t even click on it to see the image. You click once and it takes you to the thread, and you need to click a second time to see the image. Then back a couple times to get back to where you were.

      tl/dr, kbin had me first, and I left because I didn’t like the UI.

    • Cosmic Cleric
      5•1 year ago

      Timing and word of mouth.

      For myself I didn’t even know Kbin existed until after the Reddit drama happened and I moved over to Lemmy.

      • @scottywh
        2•1 year ago

        Kbin is also a worse name…

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      I actually prefer kbin.(social). It hasn’t had nearly as much downtime and errors and whatnot as I’ve experienced on lemmy. Which is remarkable since Lemmy has been around for a few years whereas kbin is fairly recent.

      Like, there are always growing pains, so I get it, and with all the influx of new users there can be issues, so not a big deal.

      I think Lemmy’s more popular mostly because for whatever reason it’s the catchall name for the fediverse right now. IDK if there’s any like (very mild) astroturfing going on, or the name is just catchy, or what.

      • Cosmic Cleric
        4•1 year ago

        It’s the name that’s catchy, and word of mouth when the Reddit drama happen, people weren’t mentioning Kbin that much.

        Also Kbin sounded like a website for uploading pictures of programming code that you want to send to another programmer. It’s a very utility sort of name, where Lemmy is a very cosmetic sort of name.

      • @[email protected]
        3•1 year ago

        If want an unprovoked opinion of a new join, I picked Lemmy because it was a simple word I could pronounce. I’m not saying kbin would be difficult to figure out, but having a simple name to pronounce is an easy “Welcome” sign to the newbies.

        I should probably check around kbin at some point and I might even like it better. I just found what worked for me and I’m hesitant to change anything right now…okay you motivated me, I’ll check it out this weekend.

    • Hyphlosion
      1•1 year ago

      I like #kbin, but I haven’t figured out how to post there from my mastodon account yet.

    • blhue
      1•1 year ago

      @meldrik Lemmy came first. It’s got that going for it. Personally, I can’t abide by the dev’s politics, so I am team Kbin.