I’m a bit confused as to what platform I should look to for my exodus from Reddit. First we have Lemmy which is a direct Reddit alternative. Then we have kbin which is ALSO is own Reddit alternative AND portal to Lemmy/Mastodon. Finally we have Mastodon which is the well established Twitter alternative that doesn’t really portal to Lemmy or Kbin.

I’m ok with Mastodon being it’s own thing, but what about Lemmy and Kbin? Kbin seems more secure and flexible but Lemmy is longer running with apps available on iOS and Android.

Which do you think you’ll be gravitating towards?

  • bbbutch@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    same here. what’s even more confusing to me is that, for example, i can look at this from from my lemmy account at https://feddit.de/post/783808 and see a few comments; but if i search this post from kbin and looking at it there https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.ml/t/10402/Overwhelmed-a-bit-with-fediverse-redundancy i only see one other comment, but not the ones i see on here at lemmy.

    i like the UI more from kbin, it’s more customizable, but i really don’t know with which platform i should subscribe to communities / magazines / threads / whatever the name is, and which account to use.

    Another thing that turns me away from kbin is the “The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance” message that appears basically in every magazine. Does that mean it stays that way? Is it syncing? I dont understand it

    • Mydayyy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yea, the kbin thread currently only shows 4 comments. Wonder whether thats just what someone else commented (kbin having hiccups) or if I understood something wrong