I love kbin but being a one man show and lacking API it was never really going to be the replacement. I am, however, glad to have it as one of a handful of smaller alternatives and a sort of cousin to Lemmy.
If it doesn’t have an API, how do I still see posts from it in my feed? Do you mean it integrates with the fediverse, but only has a web interface for now (ie. no apps)?
When I was leaving Reddit I heard of Kbin (which I do have an account in and still check all the time), raddle.me, Tildes, squabbles, and I think another. So many!
They fail on their promise of curbing the mods problem with a transparent modlog and active admins. It’s the same bunch of authoritarian kids as reddit and the power dynamics are unchanged, they make friends with each other and with the administrators and it’s exactly as hard to get one removed as it ever was on major lemmy instances
I prefer the federation where if a mod/admin’s bad you can just create a community with the same name on a different instance
there were other options?
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I love kbin but being a one man show and lacking API it was never really going to be the replacement. I am, however, glad to have it as one of a handful of smaller alternatives and a sort of cousin to Lemmy.
If it doesn’t have an API, how do I still see posts from it in my feed? Do you mean it integrates with the fediverse, but only has a web interface for now (ie. no apps)?
The API is new but took time and effort, it just wasn’t available at the time.
Yeah, the latter. There is an API, but I think it was only released in the last month or so. I’m not sure to what extent it’s complete.
A kbin instance can be downloaded as a PWA, and it works decent.
As for third party apps there’s Lunar, iOS only. Haven’t tried it.
There was also Artemis. It had the best UI/UX design I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately the dev appears to have vanished.
Before the API, I think they were web scraping.
That’s definitely not true, they had an API back in September when I looked into adding support for it
They didn’t have an sdk, but the API most certainly has been around for a while
You’re correct. I misunderstood. The API has indeed been around for a while.
The main instance (kbin.social) only started using it around a month ago: https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog/t/642285/kbin-RTR-19-Summary-of-current-work-and-plans-for-the
Apologies for the confusion.
Ah… That I didn’t know, I read through the documentation to see how hard it would be, but I never tried to use it
If that’s true, I see your point… That’s not nearly as bad as not having an API, but it’s still a deal breaker
It has an API, has for a while now
It didn’t at the time I’m speaking of.
Kbin is just lemmy+mastadon iirc
Takkun?
When I was leaving Reddit I heard of Kbin (which I do have an account in and still check all the time), raddle.me, Tildes, squabbles, and I think another. So many!
During the exodus I remember I wanted to try Tildes, but it was closed off from new users. (I don’t even understand why it was recommended.)
There is Kbin:-)
One that I don’t hear about is raddle.me, a centralized alternative.
They fail on their promise of curbing the mods problem with a transparent modlog and active admins. It’s the same bunch of authoritarian kids as reddit and the power dynamics are unchanged, they make friends with each other and with the administrators and it’s exactly as hard to get one removed as it ever was on major lemmy instances
I prefer the federation where if a mod/admin’s bad you can just create a community with the same name on a different instance
Some folks moved to matrix and discord. For a while it seemed like Squabbles might also be a thing.
Several, that were flooded with users after hate subre**its were closed. They usually turned into cesspools of hate themselves.