Kbin user Rabbithole@kbin.social discusses why Kbin stands a much better chance of staying in the long term compared to other websites like VOAT and Ruqqus.

Great summary, and I think kbin is in a great position because although maybe not a feature rich or mature as Lemmy currently is so many migrators have said they’re here because “it just seems nice.” I think that’s an incredibly difficult feeling to capture and maintaining that friendliness and approachability as the platform grows will be key.

It's a simple UI. Was looking up several alternatives to Reddit and so far kbin stands out the best, featuring functionalities from Reddit and in general intuitive to use - which is key to success
- Kbin stands out a bit because it's not just trying to be a "reddit alternative" like Lemmy, but also uniting it with features from Mastodon like microblogging. It honestly feels better suited what the "fediverse" was trying to accomplish.
- Boosting vs upvoting / downvoting is needlessly confusing and very different from Reddit. Maybe there's a good reason I haven't heard of as to why they did it like that but... Most people haven't even seen the "you should know" post explaining how it's even a thing. That's my only Kbin complaint
- i agree. so far kbin is my favorite so far out of everything i've checked out. my worry is lack of mobile apps and the api not being up to snuff. kbin needs to catch up and convince one of the big app makers to come along. sync already says lemmy :(
For me amongst the small handful of reddit alts I oh so briefly tried, kbin didn't necessarily feel the most friendly, but it did feel the most authentic sans toxic. Beehaw felt reverse toxic - it felt like an echo chamber, sanitized clean, proudly marketed. That gives me the jeebies.

Lemmy is too fragmentary and meme-heavy atm, requires too much from me. I fear that despite all it sells itself to be the contrary, Lemmy will eventually centralize. The market demands it. The incentives all point toward it. One instance to rule them all. Is that terrible? No. But it feels too familiar, and the narrative that Lemmy is beyond that somehow doesn't sit well with me.

Kbin doesn't feel like it's pretending to be a force of misguided decentralization. Again, not a bad goal, just wishful thinking without safeguards. People here argue and debate with some semblance of what feels like common respect. If I'm gonna find a social aggregate home, this one feels most authentically homey.

In brief, I guess it's kbin's "we just kinda is" ism that drew and is so far keeping me here so far.
- I don’t think you fully understand federation. I’m happily reading and posting on communities in Lemmy from kbin. Why on earth would I want centralisation?
I saw somewhere that kbin.social is around the 50k user range which is really impressive. I think getting into the 100-500k range would be a nice step up. Everyone likes good engagement and active comment.

We have a bestof? Sweet!

There were plenty of normal people who left to Voat a well. Anytime it was mentioned on Reddit there was a surge of vitriol but if you made it past the "hazing day" conversations were fairly normal (tho I never subscribed to politics subverse)

Your username is so long it's partially broken the UI on kbin! I've put it in an issue here: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/579

I'm finding lots of little UI fixes I've been cleaning up recently. Wonder how many other parts of the UI look a bit wonky when you've got a long username :o
I really liked voat, and then the reddit exodus happened and poopy heads ruined it.
- I was on coat since the beginning. Stopped using it when the degenerates ruined it. It had so much potential.

Kbin user [email protected] discusses why Kbin stands a much better chance of staying in the long term compared to other websites like VOAT and Ruqqus.