This is not an attempt to convert Lemmy users, nor is it a slight on Lemmy. I’m sure there are plenty of reasons why Lemmy works better for some, and I love the fact that we not only have multiple choices, but multiple choices that allow us to interact with each other regardless! It’s amazing. Lemmy is great, no shade.

With that said…

Why YSK: I see a lot of users posting frequent questions about Lemmy that are currently answered by kbin.

For example:

  • The ability to block a whole domain, or subscribe to one
  • The ability to subscribe to individual users
  • A built-in search tool to find communities all over fedi (kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon groups, etc.) with an indication of how active they are
  • Mitigation for the “tracking pixel” issue

I find that almost every day, I see Lemmy users asking about features and I think, “well, kbin does that.” I think it would be worthwhile for more users to check into both platforms and decide which might be best for them.

  • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
    2·
    1 year ago

    You are correct about all of those things, but KBin doesn’t have any currently released mobile apps and I like to have a mobile app. Ultimately KBin will probably have mobile apps soon and some of those features above will probably eventually be added to Lemmy, so it’s just a case of what’s the most important to us now.

    • Pietson@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      I’ve made a shortcut in Firefox to add the kbin mobile site to my home screen and it is essentially indistinguishable from a mobile app like this.

      • SimpleDev@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        While PWA sites are nice I’ve never personally used one that felt as good or as consistent as a native application.

        As much as my web dev heart would love to say they were haha.

  • wilberfan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’s obviously not a competition, but this kind of reminds me of back in the day when you had to choose between Betamax or VHS. One seemed superior (kBin)–but “everyone” was adopting VHS (Lemmy).

    • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t one of the primary benefits of the Fediverse and ActivityPub that you have the freedom to select the better alternative and still benefit from the activity on the “lesser” instances?

    • Kichae@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Ehhh. kbin’s quite feature-incomplete in its own right, it’s just a different set of features that are incomplete. I don’t think there’s anything about kbin that’s actually superior to lemmy, just… different. Meanwhile, Betamax had inarguably better video, and inarguably worse capacity.

  • Knightfall@lemmy.ca
    0·
    1 year ago

    I saw in the comments here there are no apps yet for Kbin. So are Kbin users just using the website on their devices for now?

    I’m enjoying Connect for Lemmy and awaiting Sync for Lemmy to be released. Can or will those work for me if I made a Kbin account and will I gain these Kbin perks you speak of?

    • ADHDefy@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      kbin is newer, and there are apps on the way. Artemis should be available soon, and I know there are at least one or two more being worked on. But yeah, none available rn so people are using the PWA.

  • utnapishtim@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    1 year ago

    Can someone tell me why the back button doesn’t work in Kbin and why my phone starts to heat like there is not tomorrow?

  • Nix@merv.news
    0·
    1 year ago

    I would consider kbin more if the naming for things wasnt so bad. “Magazines” as a name is in my opinion is terrible.

    I also like that lemmy uses rust

    • TheKingBee@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      You can’t black instances though, instead of blocking 100 communities you can just block one instance…