I'm planning to self-host a Reddit like instance for myself, but I'm between Lemmy and kbin . Essentially I want to host my own data, and jump into discussions from other communities.
With a limited search results, people praise for #kbin, and bash #lemmy developers about their world and political views, however Lemmy is written with #rust, and Kbin with #php .
I just want to migrate to what people will be using to.
@arda Go kbin, it's a combination of all the fediverse pretty much, I'm on it currently viewing mastodon blogs because there's a whole section for them specifically. It's literally just a convenient aggregation of Lemmy, Mastodon, and anything else in between. I think of all the sites popping up people will be using, kbin has a good shot at being the defacto choice just because it handles almost everything
@arda note also that #kbin has its own baggage. Essentially, it is accused of pilfering code from #postmill without attribution. The developer has acknowledged that they used postmill code without attribution and has promised to fix this. I particularly like kbin and postmill and have been able to install postmill locally. Postmill isn’t part of the #fediverse although kbin is.
A solo developer, piecing together a hobby project, suddenly finds their project exploding in popularity.
Someone notices this developer used OSS code in their project and failed to properly attribute.
Our developer is informed, publicly apologizes for the oversight, acknowledges it was Not Cool (even under the extraordinary circumstances in this case), and promises to do better.
@cmdrmoto@arda so don’t get me wrong. I’m all in for Ernest and what he has done with #kbin. Love that he has it federated. And totally love his owning up when Emma made it an issue. I only mentioned it so that @arda doesn’t get “blindsided” if at some point that gets called out. I love both projects #postmill and #kbin and want to see both flourish
@arda i advise against lemmy. the devs are not people i would ever want to associate with, due to their politics, but even then: lemmy cannot be hosted in any GDPR respecting country. it breaks GDPR. that's a no go no matter whether you think the political stance matters.
@arda The devs of Lemmy seem pretty far left and they show antipathy towards the US but neither of those things are inherently bad. I haven’t come across any negative interactions that the devs have had with the community. For now, I’m sticking with Lemmy.
Dev reply to political beliefs in link —> #https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html
My requirement is just to host an instance for an account, but maybe this very account will do just fine, since these are federated and that's the beauty of #activitypub after all, eh?
@arda At the moment, I'm not sure as I'm feeling very torn and upset over what has happened with #Reddit and the recent #Redditblackout. I still have a somewhat active account on there myself, mostly due to certain #Subreddits I follow of topics which interest me.
During Halloween a couple years back, I decided to dress my Reddit Avatar in a koala costume since I love koalas and was thinking about involving myself with some pro-koala activism groups due to their endangerment in Australia.
@arda Oh, and BTW, this is what my Reddit Avatar looks like and I will probably be missing it a lot if something bad happened where I'm forced to make there decision to leave #Reddit for whatever reason.
@arda Yeah, and wherever the communities decide to migrate to and we hopefully settle on, we may have to see whether its possibly my koala suited avatar from #Reddit could be migrated there or not.
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