I’ve been on Lemmy since the Reddit stuff happened. I also started using PeerTube. Now I am trying to explore more of the Fediverse and wanted to know what Kbin brings to the table compared to Lemmy.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Since you’re already familiar with lemmy, I’ll just highlight how Kbin diverges:

    • downvotes are publicly visible

    • there’s a double-upvote called “boost” that also acts as a retweet

    • it interacts with Mastodon instances natively as well as lemmy ones

    • munis are called “magazines” and located at /m/ instead of /c/, which csn break some links which would be instance-neutral on lemmy

    • there’s only a web interface, AFAIK, no mobile apps

    • active development by one sole individual who’s very involved

    • blocking whole instances is enabled at the user level

    And additionally you can do everything you can on lemmy, including self-host an instance.

    • Eggyhead@artemis.camp
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      1 year ago

      One fun thing about kbin is that websites that get posted frequently can be followed or blocked like their own magazine. This means if you’ve got a bunch of bot accounts posting links to the same dumb site, you can just go to the magazine of that site and just block that instead of playing whack-a-mole with bots.