A blog post I made about my experience on Kbin, what I like about it, and some of the challenges I still face in using it. Any feedback would be appreciated as someone who is still new to blogging. Thanks.
All of your issues were instance related I think
They were, but it kinda feels like every new instance I try is a kinder egg of new errors and issues. I would also like to return to my old instance if I can.
The lack of apps due to the lack of APIs is a major drawback compared to Lemmy.
I know Artemis exists, but it’s one app compared to the dozens of Lemmy clients
And even Artemis only works if you have your kbin account on the artemis.camp instance until they come out with an official kbin API.
I, too, preferred KBin to lemmy. I created my communities there and ultimately spun up my own instance. With all the problems, I finally gave up on it and ended up spinning up a lemmy instance. With the Advent of Sync for lemmy, it was the right decision.
Now, using sync, and lemmy tools on the desktop, the lemmy experience is excellent.
I do think KBin has a better user interface and the extra Mastodon integration is awesome, but it’s just too rough to be used as a daily driver unfortunately.
If you haven’t already, check out alexandrite and photon. Both are outstanding alternative UIs to Lemmy and dramatically improve the UI/UX in my opinion.
I’m not seeing how to use a difference instance with photon? I don’t use lemmy.ml
Change the “instance URL” to the instance you use. In your case, you would input showeq.com.
I’ll soon make it so that you can change guest instance without logging in.
I prefer other options but it’s great that we have a bunch of decent ways to interact with the Fediverse. The more the better!
Smaller instances won’t have a lot of the issues that the main instance has. I run one at https://dmv.pub. DMV being the DC/Maryland/Virginia region but anyone is welcome to join.
