/kbin - a few quick announcements - /kbin meta - kbin.social
kbin.social
Good morning! :) Today I want to focus mainly on reviewing the pull requests you've submitted. There are many great things there that will help improve the kbin experience. That's amazing, thank you! I'm also in the final stages of sorting out the infrastructure-related formalities. Soon, the situation with the website's...

It looks like kbin.social is in the final stages of migrating their site, and merging a whole bunch of improvements. Having their ~5k users federating with us again will be nice

  • nlm@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    kbin seems rather promising.

    Haven’t really played around with it much since the federation part wasn’t working. Anyone been using it more and care to chime in with their experiences compared to Lemmy?

      • exu@feditown.comEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        They’re called toots in Mastodon and yeah, I’m not really a fan either. Which is why I’m on the Lemmy side.

        I also use Mastodon, but it’s just a very different format to posts on Lemmy.

      • nlm@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I saw that. Just thinking general usage when everything’s working as intended.

        Their UI looks nice at least and it seems to have quite a few users.

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I haven’t really used it, so this is all second-hand:

      As far as I understand, it’s a younger project with more papercuts than Lemmy, but more features. Instead of just being a link aggregator like Reddit/Lemmy, it’s also got microblog functionality so it plays better with Mastodon. For users of Mastodon, having a one-stop-shop for both services is pretty handy.

      It’s much harder and more problematic to set up kbin instances, so almost everyone just uses kbin.social. This means it’s a very centralized fediverse platform compared to Lemmy, but that might be seen as an advantage to some.

      • nlm@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I can see how that centralization could be both a positive and a negative. Sounds kind of nice to have a central point to then access the more spread out nature of Lemmy for instance. But then again, it’s vulnerable instead… not sure what I prefer to be hontest.

        I’m probably too new to the fediverse to have an educated opinion yet!

    • Jonamerica @midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It has excellent potential. It has only been around about a month and has quickly received a lot of interest and, from what I’ve read, there has been a surge in code contributions. I think it will be the preferred platform alt-Reddit platform once Kbin resolves its more significant issues and starts adding some QoL features.