I have been thinking which of the two should i use. If i understand fully i can still browse lemmy instances on kbin. And i can even check out mastodon users on it.
If this is the case, why would anyone choose lemmy instead of kbin? I assume there must be another aspects i don’t know of?
I went with Lemmy because:
- Rust is the faster and more modern language.
- Lemmy had more instances when I joined - I was concerned about spreading the load over multiple instances
- It was much easier to set up and maintain a new instance via an Ansible script
- The structure, look and feel and language felt more comfortable
At this point, I’d also include how much more mature the Lemmy codebase is, for example that the api is fully accessible.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Kbin. You choose whatever works for you and we can all enjoy the Fediverse together.
Lemmy is much better for developer/admins. There is currently 10+ Lemmy apps in the works and 2 apps that supports both Lemmy and K.bin this is because K.bin doesn’t have a proper API documentation yet. Lemmy also has a better documentation for running your own instance and uses way less resources. Most of the Lemmy’s advantages are technical ones but it translates to user facing ones with more apps, more responsive, has more users and can scale better
I’m also confused. I joined lemmy instance, but I can browse kbin.social. I didn’t even realize that kbin was anything different than one more lemmy instance.
I made an account in both and installed their websites as pwas on my phone. For lemmy (on lemmy.world) there is a bug/feature that constantly loads new shit no matter the sorting which at first made it unusable for me.
This is supposed to be gone in 18.1 though but lemmy.world has issues upadating.
Kbin PWA does not respect orientation lock which also really grinds my gears.
So today I started looking into apps. Currently on wefwef PWA and its the best experience so far but needs more interface customisation eg thumbs on the right so I can properly take a wank and browse with one hand.
Another vouch for wefwef. I’ve been trying it since yesterday and it’s really good and fast.
Regarding kbin, the main problem that I see is that it isn’t transparent about in which server a community (aka magazine), so there are lots of kbin self posts that actually are in other servers (like lemmy.world). Thats a problem when you’re trying to understand how this fediverse thing actually works.
I’ve subscribed to many kbin in groups from lemmy so far. I think your good either way.
