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?
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Lemmy is more of a Reddit alternative, where you have the focus on communities/categories (similar to “subreddits”) to which you can subscribe to, while Mastodon is more a Twitter alternative, focusing on users to follow.
Kbin is actually slightly special. It is running on the Fediverse network, which can communicate with multiple other services. Meaning, it can show you content from all Lemmy instances (called Threads) and content from Mastodon (Microblog). You can see this thread there as well. In addition, it supports even more of the so-called “ActivityPub” services, like Pleroma or Peertube.
By using Kbin, you have access to both worlds, Lemmy and Mastodon, in addition to other services.
I already use mastodon, and built a good follow list with some people and hashtags to follow, and got an app I like with settings the way I want, so I anticipate I’ll move some more of my time to mastodon now that I won’t be spending any time on Reddit. However, as you mentioned mastodon isn’t really a reddit replacement. For that, I’m anticipating Lemmy will fill some of it, and depending on how much it takes off, I’m going to probably get back to using a robust RSS reader as well.
You can follow Lemmy links in mastodon which actually works surprisingly well just not as well as the actual Lemmy app.
I am on lemmy atm and will be staying here for the foreseeable future.
Lemmy and kbin are somewhat rivals, the mostly do the same. kbin is much newer, we will see if any of the two come out on top.
I also have a mastodon account, but really don’t follow anything from lemmy or kbin there, it’s an entirely different thing imo, even though there are some compatibilities.
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
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
I find myself in a similar position. For now, i just stop overthinking the whole thing and just have multiple horses in the race and see how it will turn out in the future. I would love if the account would be connected with every federation, just so the instance itself is just a frontend and is completely interchangeable and if you really created your account on an instance which goes south or even down, it wouldn’t matter.
