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What's the benefit of using Kbin over Lemmy? (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I see a very small minority of people using Kbin, but I don't understand why.

Is this just a coincidence and did some people choose Kbin over Lemmy or is there a good reason to use Kbin?

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Apart from what has already been said (politics, basic UI) there are a couple more things worth mentioning:

Kbin's interface is muuuch more customizable than lemmy's: browsing form a web browser (desktop or mobile) let's you modify your viewing experience as much as any mobile app for lemmy (but lemmly itself doesn't). From infinite scrolling vs pages to font sizes and such.
kbin allows for (mastodon-like) boosting of posts, which is like a super-upvote that lemmy just doesn't have.
on kbin you can subscribe to mastodon users aka federate with mastodon. Something that lemmy also can't.

Other than that only personal taste matters in the end, and both federate with eachother, so enjoy it from wherever you are.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Also the ability for users to block instances and domain like mastodon has, which is pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a big one. There were some contributions from either instances or bots on my feed I didn’t like that I just blocked, and my feed is fine now. No need to ask for defederation of the whole community when you can do it yourself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can block users/bots on Lemmy too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But not instances or servers, that's a much needed feature to de-porn my feed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's on the to-do list!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, although it's almost been a year since the request so I don't know how high it's priority wise.

Since the question was why people use Kbin that is a big one for now, at least for me although I have an account there I just prefer lemmy since Kbin seems to be too much on its infancy and also the fact that because it doesn't have an open API as of now, there are (almost) no apps developed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Given the massive uptake in the last month I'm hoping a lot of old issues are now being looked at!

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