just that

  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    1 year ago

    Learned about Lemmy from Reddit but never heard of kbin until recently. That said, I like the name Lemmy a lot more than the name kbin. kbin sounds like a hex editor for KDE, not a Reddit alternative. I love the open source community, but sometimes the names of projects leave much to be desired. Lemmy isn’t the perfect name but it’s more memorable than kbin.

    • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      Speaking about names. What the hell is a “magazine”?? It’s like the kbin devs went out of their way to ensure they named everything to be as confusing to outsiders as possible.

      • SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Kind of like how Lemmy made up communities? Lol you don’t call microblogs “toots” either. Seems every fediverse software has their own terminology.

        Also it’s dev, singular. Kbin has been put together by only one dev. I personally find that damn impressive considering it’s functionally on par with Lemmy being only 2 months old to Lemmy’s 4 years.

      • Haily@rblind.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Holy shit it all makes sense now! I’ve been seeing posts and comments randomly talking about magazines for ages now with absolutely no idea what any of them are going on about. Didn’t realise it was a Kbin thing. That’s one of the downsides of Federation I suppose, sometimes shit just gets weird.

    • SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Really? Kbin as the name is what intrigued me initially over Lemmy. It’s actually inspired by Linux, the sbin directory to be specific.

    • SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yes….on a technical level. But the picture is bigger than that. Personally, I have a hunch that the choice of Rust is making Lemmy’s development slower. This seemed to be evidenced by the fact that Kbin has more functionality than Lemmy while having only been around for 2 months. Vs Lemmy’s 4 years. The Kbin dev has also been much more able to fix things on the fly during the surge in users. Whereas Lemmy will supposedly move off websocket use any day now.

      Adoptability isn’t something to be discounted. The fact that there any more people out there familiar with PHP may give Kbin an edge over time. And let’s be honest, in real-world test PHP can very often be faster then - less-than-mature-Rust codebase.

  • Ghost@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    I liked both but ultimately joined Lemmy over kbin because it seems like there’s more interest in building mobile apps for Lemmy. (Currently using Jerboa) Also like that my Lemmy instance is based on renewable energy which is nice.

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Same for me. Pure laziness.

      I already put in a lot of time to figure this out, I need to rest for a bit before I jump into kbin.

  • olsonexi@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    It was the first one I knew about and I haven’t had a reason to switch over. I already knew about lemmy long before all of the reddit drama happened, so that was where I went a few days before the blackout. I had never even heard of kbin until after I’d already been on lemmy for a while. Also, rust > php, and calling communities “magazines” is weird.

  • Evono@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I tried Kbin and its way harder for me somehow searching other federated instanced content on Kbin than on lemmy.

    It feels like for Kbin you need to go first to lets say Lemmy.world and then check the list and copy the names of each then search it.

    on any lemmy instance i can simply search the things and find stuff of other instances way easier.

    also Lemmy is like WAY bigger of user base posts and comments.

  • Carly™@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy is the first one I heard about, and that’s where I made my account. Kbin is also a much newer project, so I’m less confident that it’ll be around in the mid-to-long term future than lemmy.world, and I’d rather not have to make a new account.

  • EthanolParty@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I have accounts on both because I feel like we’re going to see a lot of changes over the coming months, and I’m curious to see how the two evolve. I’m mostly using Lemmy right now because I find Kbin’s interface a little annoying to use, but they’re both being actively updated so that might change soon.

  • Shyder @lemmy.fmhy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m in both, but I’m a Reddit refugee looking for a similar experience. 99% of my Reddit’s time was through the RIF app and Jeroba looks and feels the same, so currently I only use lemmy.

    I wouldn’t mind switching over to kbin if it gets better in the future since I can read everything from anywhere.

    • SGNL@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      @jerome I tried making one (so I can test out apps when they start coming out in case they don’t support my preference, kbin) and I was having that issue all day. I finally made one about an hour ago, just keep trying… I think they’re having a hard time handling the traffic atm.

  • ppp@lemmy.one
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I’m torn as well. I find it easier to navigate Lemmy but Kbin’s interface feels much more polished.

    As someone who wants to self-host an instance, which would you guys recommend? I’ve been reading through the documentation for both and Lemmy seems easier to install. Does anyone have experience with both? I’m interested to know how well they scale in terms of performance.

    edit: And to add, I’m not a fan of kbin’s “microblog” and “magazine” is a strange word for “community”.