I noticed that kbin has stalled in development recently and the ongoing problems with federation etc. made me use it even less for the past few weeks. I even spent more time on reddit than here.
Today, I decided to give my abandoned lemmy account a try and see how that goes.
As many others, I disliked the UI of lemmy, compared to kbin, but soon enough found this one https://p.lemmy.world and it’s been very smooth so far.
So yeah … hello from the other side of the fence 🍷
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I started on kbin myself. It was mostly a population consideration, though I did like the downvote accounting. Community moderation is one thing Tildes does right, and that was a step in that direction.
I ultimately bailed when even the big magazines weren’t being moderated anymore (spam everywhere).
I personally recommend https://a.lemmy.world if you’re going to use an alternative frontend.
wow alexandrite looks beautiful
Old habits die hard for me and I’m glad they’ve got mlmym on https://old.lemmy.world, it’s my default on the desktop now
If anyone is doing the same and misses the community bar customisation from RES, I cobbled together a little userscript to do this
Hopefully someone else finds it useful too
I preferred the kbin ui on pc originally but the phone apps and the release of “old reddit” style ui for lemmy got me to switch
Wow. Photon UI looks really nice. It’s a lot like Sync
Wrt fediverse, you can keep using all of them at the same time. How cool is that!
I started in Kbin. I think that the activity level was smaller in there, which made me swap. Another reason was that Lemmy feels nicer to use (I like its looks more and I found a neat app on the phone to use it. Didn’t find an app for Kbin).
If you’re not ready to leave yet mbin fork that integrates community fixes faster. Fedia switched to it.
I’ve heard about mbin, but as a developer myself I don’t think PHP is the suited language for those kinds of things, where performance and resource usage are just crucial. According to ernests recent post somewhere, they’re still struggling with infrastructure issues. And I’m afraid mbin will face the same issues sooner than later.
Yes. The constant logouts were bad - a little on desktop but constantly on mobile, and needing to refresh/login spam 4x to get in sometimes. After awhile growth and activity also looked to be stalling out. I realized a bunch more communities I was missing out on were from Lemmy and I needed to make an account to fully interact.
When I found old.lemmy.world it was game over. I don’t think I’ll go back to my kbin account much anymore.
Kbin kept logging me out. At some point, it got so annoying, I deleted my bookmark.
