Y’all: I have been wrestling with kbin on the fedia.io instance, but I want to take a step back and give some perspective. Kbin is new, it’s growing crazy fast, and it really wasn’t in a place to support the migration from Reddit. Despite that, @ernest has been working his tail off knocking down issues and helpings instance admins.
Reddit certainly seems to be tripling down on their position and I think kbin is shaping up to be a worthy alternative. If you like kbin (on whatever instance you use it on) and want to see it grow, may I ask that you throw some money Ernest’s way? (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin)
I want to publicly thank Ernest for kbin and for his contributions to our growing fediverse community.
@jerry@ernest
Kbin is absolutely our best reddit alternative right now. Lemmy is good and I'm glad it exists, but it feels more alpha than anything right now.
Kbin on the other hand feels more polished. It needs work, definitely, but you can feel the potential when you use it.
Thanks to all the devs out there working to build the future. Who knew it's what we'd need in 2023 😂
#Lemmy now has 135,369 accounts. That is tracking with my expectations.
But while #Kbin had ~7,000 accounts yesterday, it’s just shot up to 30,930 accounts today.
While Lemmy is the 5th most used server software on the Fediverse, Kbin is now in 10th place and it’s growing at a faster rate than Lemmy.
A few days ago, I predicted that the #RedditMigration would result in 150,000-300,000 new accounts being created on the Fediverse. That expectation has already been met.
This #RedditMigration is fundamentally changing the course of the Fediverse. It’s moved the Fediverse from being primarily about microblogging to having more eclectic use cases.
While the #TwitterMigration validated that decentralized social media can appeal to millions of people, the #RedditMigration has validated that decentralized social media has man varied applications – both in the software and use case sense.
@atomicpoet I'm one of the kbin users coming from Reddit and I have fully accepted that we're going to be the crash-test wave. Emphasis on crash. That being said, Ernest has clearly shown that he's doing his hardest to handle this new influx of people and making the platform better, and I hope he'll get the support he needs to achieve that goal. And hopefully, kbin will be better prepared for the next wave that'll undoubtedly come as the API changes go into effect after the end of June. And the ones after that.
@feditips@Erik Sorry if those here already know, but I didn't see it mentioned in this thread, so... kbin is a fediverse Reddit-like alternative to Lemmy.
Looks like #Lemmy and #Kbin keep being mentioned together, which to me suggests we might have averted "mastodonization" of the #threadiverse — i.e. a situation where the whole network gets identified with a single piece of software. 🎉
@rysiek i ‘d be happy if the diaspora could find in their new home something with more form and function to the platform they left behind. Considering it all one mixed bag, one yet more identical marvelous separate but equal sameness whether Mastadon, Lemmy or Kbin , etc, is not going to satisfy.
One here and one on kbin, but I noticed that I spent 80% of the time here. I often want to try out kbin, but the cloudflare-check I have to go through every single time I want to use kbin is annoying and it just feels more empty than Lemmy. So I often can't be bothered to go to kbin anymore and will most likely choose Lemmy as my replacement for Reddit.
Found out about kbin from a post saying the fgc community was setting up there. I liked it but wanted to use a mobile app so made an account here and I'm liking it too so far. I learned to like the mobile browser ui for kbin as well but now I feel like both platforms can have their own place.
I'm sure it's not going to last forever as this site grows in popularity but I feel like I can talk about whatever with minimal judgement here (and just overall no anxiety in comparison to everywhere else), just nice vibes all around ^^
Kinda wanna use kbin on my instance but looking at posts and browsing seem to be much better at the actual kbin UI. Mmh if i want to share stuff here i can at least do it still. But browsing kbin feels better at an actual kbin instance.
I think the biggest thing that I didn't really notice at first was just how Reddit 'works'. It was very much 'what you see is what you get' and didn't really take much to figure out how to use it.
With anything new though there's a learning curve and after 24 hours or so on kbin, I'm starting to figure out how this and the wider Fediverse works and it's feeling more and more like home.
Also Reddit is also 18 years old (in a few days) and has 52million+ users so there's obviously more content. As this platform grows it will be easier to get the content you want but at the moment it's going to take some work from the user to search for magazines and contribute.
So was looking at Kbin and I can't seem to find a masterlist of instances like I could with the version of fedi on this platform
Does anyone have a good list of instances to join? preferably ones that are lgbtq, trans spaces that aren't full of tankies and don't federate with bigots?
I often feel like replies are cringe on fedi and I can never tell if someone wants replies. so that's at least one thing I'm optimistic about for kbin or Lemmy. it's nice to have posts that are clearly designed for conversation threads.
zio-http, tapir, and psql. React/typescript on the FE because I already know it and don't want to learn another FE framework.
But I'm pumped lemmy is in rust as it gives me an excuse to fool around with it. Equally saddened kbin is php as I will use that as an excuse to never fool around with it.
I really miss chatrooms in general, and I thought we were due for a comeback for the year or two reddit was running them, what with the userbase they have.
PHP is not, in itself, inherently bad. The newer versions are performant and if you are a good programmer, you can produce completely fine stuff with it.
The problem is that it's flexibility leads to sloppy programming, which leads to projects that turn into a cluster. A good example is WordPress. I'd argue WordPress itself is well written. Once you add a dozen or so badly written plugins though it becomes a mess.
A lot of the criticism is the same that JavaScript gets. It's a loosely typed language. So "1" is different than 1. The first is a string and the second is an integer. So if you add 1+1 you could end up with 11 instead of 2.
Again, this isn't a problem if you're a disciplined dev, but we're not a breed known for our discipline ;)
When I tried Kbin it was slow, which I attributed to badly written PHP code. However, I didn't do the research to confirm this was the case.
Most people access the Fediverse through one of the large instances: lemmy.world, kbin, or beehaw. New or small instances of Lemmy have no content by default, and can most easily get content by linking to larger Lemmy instances. This is done manually one "Community" at a time (I spent 15 minutes doing this yesterday). Meanwhile,...
Twitter is a extremely good fit for ActivityPub as there you are following users, while in Lemmy you primarily follow communities whose strength is determined by number. !technology on beehaw is better than !technology on an instance of 10 people.
By centralized, I mean to be in the 1-4 large instances on Lemmy that people flock to from smaller instances. Right now, the design of the Fediverse encourages former Redditors to join the biggest instances. Discovery tools might spread out the users and make solo instances more viable, but the activity may still be concentrated in the same few instances.
Every instance has the potential to be standalone like Tildes by defederating from everybody else once they hit critical mass. Like Truth Social on Mastodon. Or Kbin before it Federated.
Hey guys, this time I really messed up :/
I think you should see something....
Reddit threatens replacing moderators from privated subreddits, citing vandalism and squatting.
How many accounts do you have on lemmy/kbin?
First time posting, but i was wondering if i was the only one who had more than 2 accounts in total on here
ich_iel (feddit.de) German
Gibt es schon einen offiziellen eingebürgerten Namen fürs "Fediverse"?
Reasons For Joining
To all of the members who didn't come from Reddit, what inspired you to join Lemmy?
First time I feel completely chill with talking on social media (thank you Lemmy)
I'm sure it's not going to last forever as this site grows in popularity but I feel like I can talk about whatever with minimal judgement here (and just overall no anxiety in comparison to everywhere else), just nice vibes all around ^^
What is one thing that you miss the most about reddit?
I miss that i could google something, write reddit in the end and the results would be honest and not ads or trash
Welcome to Switzerland
This community should act as an replacement for all r/switzerland reddit refugees or generally users, who want to talk about switzerland on lemmy.
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If you had to make a reddit/kbin-like clone, what tech stack would you use?
Thinking of starting a personal project to keep busy. I'm very good with databases and SQL but interested in branching out to more full-stack...
Is there any chance kbin will give chatrooms a go like reddit did? Except maybe get it right and not abandon it halfway through?
I really miss chatrooms in general, and I thought we were due for a comeback for the year or two reddit was running them, what with the userbase they have.
In case anyone has moral issues with migrating to Lemmy vs Kbin, check this out. (kbin.social)
So yea, turns out the dude stole a lot of code from other projects and people.
The Lemmy User Experience is Better When Centralized into Fewer Instances
Most people access the Fediverse through one of the large instances: lemmy.world, kbin, or beehaw. New or small instances of Lemmy have no content by default, and can most easily get content by linking to larger Lemmy instances. This is done manually one "Community" at a time (I spent 15 minutes doing this yesterday). Meanwhile,...