Is it speed? Features? Ease of development? Just curious why lemmy is seeing more activity as opposed to other networks.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    161 year ago

    I’m really put off by the “warning warning this content isn’t from this instance” attitude of Kbin. I’ve also had a heck of a time getting some content to federate. I’m having a much better experience on Lemmy, so I’ll put up with the UI quirks - I use the memmy app most of the time anyway.

    • Frost WolfOP
      link
      fedilink
      21 year ago

      On closer look, I think Kbin feels more like an alternative to facebook or tumblr than to reddit, although it has its own “communities” as well. Though once federation matures, I guess it won’t matter too much.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        61 year ago

        I see little difference beyond the ability to microblog on Kbin. I think it was unnecessary to rename communities, and causes confusion. I still keep an eye on my kbin.social and fedia.io logins, but I just can’t access content I can find from multiple lemmy instances. I was also swayed away from Kbin by an admin who was running it but ultimately gave up on it and switched to lemmy because Kbin is unstable. (I’ll update this comment with a link if I can find it)

        • Frost WolfOP
          link
          fedilink
          11 year ago

          You’re right. The microblog on Kbin is very tempting. But it’s sluggish right now, at least for me. So I’ll probably still make lemmy my home base and keep an eye on kbin. I definitely see its potential as an alternative facebook or tumblr or even twitter if it can’t compete as a reddit alternative.

          It’s still in the fediverse but like you, I’ll be keeping my eye on my kbin.social account, as well. :)

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            11 year ago

            I’m curious about what aspect of Kbin is similar to Facebook / Tumblr? I can’t tell the difference between a post and a thread, but both seem to be posted in magazines (communities).

            • Frost WolfOP
              link
              fedilink
              11 year ago

              You can also follow people which is more twitter territory but facebook allows that too. It has a private messaging feature too. I guess those along with the microblogging features can make it a viable competitor to facebook if given the chance to mature. All it needs perhaps is a dedicated friends list and magazines can be repurposed to groups. Maybe pages and it would be a full fb experience.

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                11 year ago

                I think for me, the killer feature for a Facebook alternative is being able to limit the audience - there is some stuff I want to share with friends and family that I don’t want to be globally public.

                • Frost WolfOP
                  link
                  fedilink
                  11 year ago

                  Ahh that’s the FB feature that I’ve been taking for granted. I guess I’m so used to always posting “public” in my facebook that I don’t think about it. My more private photos are on instagram and that’s on private, too. I mostly use facebook for professional uses. Well that and I am deligent with my friend list.

          • r00ty
            link
            fedilink
            11 year ago

            Is it sluggish on other kbin instances? I think a lot of the problems with federation right now is the sheer load of users on the instances with the most popular communities and that’s causing timeouts and errors in federation. While many many instances are just one user.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            11 year ago

            My experience with Kbin is that it seems more limited on Federated posts and that the smaller Kbin instance (I use Readit.buzz) seems to be lacking some of the posts and thumbnails that I see on Kbin.social. It seems like Lemmy works better on the smaller instances (not Lemmy.world) than Kbin does (not kbin.social).

            I have not really used the Kbin microblog—I am using Mastodon for that.

    • artillect
      link
      fedilink
      11 year ago

      The warning is just a general reminder that kbin is in beta and remote communities won’t always work 100% perfectly

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        21 year ago

        I get the point, but the presentation is a “It is very important that you do not miss this warning”. The message (and attitude) is less “We have technical details to work out” and more anti-federation.

      • r00ty
        link
        fedilink
        11 year ago

        I think the reminder is just what it says. It’s unlikely you will ever have all the historical content from a remote instance’s community. So that message is just telling you that. It’s the same on lemmy when connecting to a remote community.

    • exscape
      link
      fedilink
      11 year ago

      FWIW I’ve had as many issues with federation between Lemmy instances as with Lemmy-to-kbin. So I’m my view the accurate warning is the main difference.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        21 year ago

        shrug I’m just speaking of my experience. I’ve been able to access the communities I’m interested in on multiple lemmy instances, but I’ve had zero luck on Kbin. Frankly, the “connect to remote community” UX for both lemmy and Kbin is complete crap, and is likely the #1 turnoff for new users. I’m very disappointed that neither have chosen to fix it.

    • Anca
      link
      fedilink
      01 year ago

      @cerevant @Frostwolf Content from remote instances is sometimes going to act a little bit weird in the Fediverse.

      Would you rather be warned about it, or notice it yourself? Kbin seems to be the most pedantic fediverse app, with its insistence that users be aware of the implications of the use.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        21 year ago

        That isn’t a feature, it is a bug. With the exception of during recent slowdowns, it almost never happens on Lemmy. If you want to post a warning, at least give the ability to dismiss it - I don’t need to have an oddly colored banner at the top of every community.

        • Anca
          link
          fedilink
          11 year ago

          @cerevant Like I said, pedantic.

          They could do a much better job of raising awareness without annoying users.