So I’ve been starting to look further into the Fediverse and using it a lot more than any other part of the internet at this point. I wanna know the reasons why people might prefer Lemmy or Mastodon, I have both but seem to lean towards Lemmy for some reason, but not sure why maybe it’s the simple design and you can find topics a little easier or it might be because I prefer the idea of Reddit over twitter.

Why do you prefer Lemmy? (or mastodon?)

  • GeekFTW
    19•1 year ago

    Do you prefer the style of Twitter, or Reddit? Tweets or threads? That’s the big difference.

    As a side option: Kbin. It’s a Reddit alternative like Lemmy (and pretty much works the same way for the purposes of this), but it also has better federation with mastodon, and every community has both a ‘reddit-like’ half and a ‘twitter-like’ half so you kinda get the best of both worlds.

    • Samantha E XaviaOPEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      Oh I didn’t release there was that much difference between Kbin and Lemmy, I knew they were similar but I didn’t release they sort of work together a bit more.

      I like the UI of Threads sure but never been a huge user of Twitter or Reddit. haven’t really been a user of Social Media but I do find Lemmy a lot more freeing in the chatting sort of way.

      • GeekFTW
        4•1 year ago

        Oh I didn’t release there was that much difference between Kbin and Lemmy, I knew they were similar but I didn’t release they sort of work together a bit more.

        More than that too. Different coding, better (subjectively) UI, you can block users, communities, domains, and (coming ‘soon’) instances, the stuff I mentioned, plus we can see upvotes/downvotes and who did them on threads and comments like admins on lemmy can. Not sure if lemmy has userstyles yet via tampermonkey and the like, but we got tons too to customize the UI and add extra features, there’s even a Kbin Enhancement Suite now lol.

        Only drawback is the dev(s) don’t have an API yet, so no apps at this time. Several apps are ready to add kbin once the API is up tho, and the mobile kbin is real damn good so it’s hard to complain on that 1 point. I made a Beehaw and Kbin account at the same time, haven’t touched Beehaw in weeks lol.

        • Samantha E XaviaOP
          5•1 year ago

          I’ve just created my kbin account now, I’ll give it a good go, been enjoying Lemmy the most as of the moment but if I can find a platform that works even better for me then that would be great.

          • GeekFTW
            4•1 year ago

            Good thing is, any communities you enjoyed on lemmy, you still got access to!