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.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
    35·
    1 year ago

    Since you’re already familiar with lemmy, I’ll just highlight how Kbin diverges:

    • downvotes are publicly visible

    • there’s a double-upvote called “boost” that also acts as a retweet

    • it interacts with Mastodon instances natively as well as lemmy ones

    • munis are called “magazines” and located at /m/ instead of /c/, which csn break some links which would be instance-neutral on lemmy

    • there’s only a web interface, AFAIK, no mobile apps

    • active development by one sole individual who’s very involved

    • blocking whole instances is enabled at the user level

    And additionally you can do everything you can on lemmy, including self-host an instance.

    • Eggyhead@artemis.camp
      9·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
      51·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Interaction with mastodon must be why they always have so many hashtags, TIL!

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.