I guess it's both. Met a lot of kbin people in the past few days, so I went to check how this here looks from there. Kbin interface + Lemmy content seems like the best of both worlds, but the interoperability is pretty broken, sadly.
Personally, I'm here for the interface. I tried getting into Lemmy. It was unnecessarily arcane, and unnecessarily arcane things usually don't prosper in these scenarios.
Only reason I picked kbin was because of the interface. No offense, but lemmy seems a little janky at the moment. But it doesn't matter, we're all here anyway.
Federation is no more wonky than between regular Lemmy instances in my experience. I've had issues with both at times.
It was only for a few days when the Reddit protest started that federation was barely working at all, it's been mostly fine for quite a while now!
This is something that I don't quite get because Kbin doesn't even have an option to collapse comments, are there are any other things that you think Kbin does better than Lemmy? I also don't like how the thumbnails are stretched for image posts, and that images open on a second page load instead of inline. The lemmy experience in 0.17 was a bit messy with webhooks, but 0.18 is much better (check lemmy.ml for an instance running 0.18).
I kinda prefer that look honestly with the stretched boxes and thumbnails. Collapse comments is nice on Lemmy but I found that when i was upvoting or refreshing it seemed to lag and take a few seconds. Maybe thatâs fixed Iâll go check it out!
I browse on desktop, therefore at this point in time, I use kbin. All other UIs I've found in the fediverse are pretty bad by comparison. Way too much garbage on the screen on most of them, and lemmy.world has an auto-updating scroll that you can't disable that I suspect is also a memory leak.
lemmy.world has an auto-updating scroll that you canât disable that I suspect is also a memory leak.
The auto-updating should be gone in Lemmy 0.18, but lemmy.world is waiting for 0.18.1 to update so they can keep sign-up captcha. Should only be a couple of days, from what I've read.
lemmy.world has an auto-updating scroll that you canât disable that I suspect is also a memory leak.
I'm pretty sure it is. I've heard several people mention that their browser tab will crash if they leave it open. When I'm done browsing, I'll leave it on my profile page and haven't had any problems.
The software stack seems more stable, the web interface is better and more flexible, and the development team seems more sound than Lemmy's. Heck I could potentially drop my Akkoma and PeerTube accounts entirely as well.
Personally that's the appeal for me! Once they add following hashtags I think I'll move over to kbin and toss my Mastadon and Lemmy accounts so I only have to manage a single login