I’m very new to Lemmy, I’m trying to see how it all works and what happens here. But honestly I feel like it might be a little too decentralized? Like, I know it’s the point but I feel like this doesn’t make for the best experience. Communities can be on any particular instance, and you can have repeats of communities for the same things. This feels overcomplicated, but I understand why it’s that way.
Also, how many people are actually doing a full switch from Reddit? I personally don’t intend on leaving Reddit, I’m just leaving temporarily, but not for any specific amount of time. I think that’s what most people will do, or I guess I hope so, because Lemmy still has a long way to go before it gets good enough to make a competition, especially considering the drawbacks I said before, and I don’t want us to lose all those communities that went black indefinetly, even if I supported the decision.
The point of the blackout was to protest, expecting an end to it all, although many are already wishing for an end for Reddit altogether from what I can see.
Idk, I still hope Reddit doesn’t die tbh, I hope they listen to reason and backtrack a bit, or we find a way to bypass the restrictions somehow, I think I saw a revanced patch to many Sync work iirc, so maybe there’s hope still.
I wonder, how good are Mastodon and Kbin? I know nothing about Kbin, and with Mastodon I worry that, being so similar to Twitter, it may end up with the same shortcomings
Kbin I’m struggling to understand how is any different than the other Lemmy instances besides a prettier interface. I do like the interface but Kbin.social seems to be the main instance and it’s having some growing pains right now (server-wise) so it isn’t integrating with the rest of the fediverse very well atm.
Mastodon feels like a Twitter clone, but without all the right wing nut jobs. There is a fair share of left wing nut jobs but I’m finding it easier to ignore them. Since I never used Twitter much at all I’m finding it easier to navigate/learn Mastodon but really I just search some hashtags of what I want to see, subscribe and interact from there.
As far as Lemmy in general goes I’m starting to understand the bigger picture. Mastodon is an instance on the fediverse and I can see and interact with content on Lemmy from there if I want to. I keep seeing the analogy that it’s like email servers so I’m treating it like I did the early days of email, try everything until I settle into a home and an interface I like.
Mastodon is very different to Lemmy/Kbin - Mastodon is Twitter, not Reddit.
Lemmy/Kbin are very much the “Threadiverse”. They see each others threads and communities, and effectively compete on server speed & interface logic.
Currently, I’m preferring Kbin - the new Fedia.IO instance is nice and fast and federated, so that’s the one I would recommend.