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Just call them "clips." /s Seriously though, the aesthetic of Kbin is its best feature, but the concept behind the threads seems. I dunno. Weird. Lemmy feels janky and basic, like old Reddit. 💗

Same. This is just bizarre to me. Paper magazines aren’t as common in the world today as they used to be, but neither are they some ancient thing that has passed out of history, allowing the word to be used for pure metaphorical value. Maybe some people are young enough for it to be so, but certainly not me.

For real. Wanna try Mastodon? Make an account on mastodon.social. Wanna try Lemmy? Make an account on Lemmy.world. Once people buy into the platforms they can migrate to smaller/niche instances if they’d like. Simply things at first, active users will then slowly figure out the rest.

Yes. Anytime someone starts trying to explain the Fediverse to someone signing up I want to put my hand on their face and tell the newbie right this way.

It’s like how there aren’t articles comparing email options. We all just kinda picked an email site and stuck with it until something goes wrong and then pick the next one. No one’s really investing time in debating ones over the others or trying to convert others to Team Hotmail or somethin.

Agree completely. It just makes it all sound much more complicated than it is in practice. I’m used to the fediverse now and my eyes glazed over reading all that.

Another issue I have with the article is that he doesn’t even touch on third-party apps, which are abundant and pretty damn robust considering how new they are. The fact that much of Reddit’s self immolation was directly due to their treatment of third-party apps. At least worth a paragraph in my opinion.

Otherwise, nice write up.

I am not sure I agree. It does not need paragraphs of explanations but something that says the server you sign up for decides what you can see, should still be mentioned.

I have signed up for multiple servers in the beginning and found quite big differences in what I could see because of what was already blocked. Or servers that have not federated with each other yet. Then I stuck with lemmy.fmhy.ml and well, I guess you know the story.

So I think it definitely should mention server choice may influence content and one should try out several in the beginning to see whats best for yourself.

There are also some quirks in how Kbin handles things that differs from Lemmy. Linking to Lemmy instances works fine when viewed from Kbin, but it doesn't seem to work when linking Kbin communities. All fairly minor though!

So long as the federation of servers is based on the whim of the few people who own the instances, the server you choose is most currently relevant. The people running these communities need to realize that cutting of groups just because you don't agree with them or have personal issues with them is going to cause an extremely fragmented experience, alienating new users who don't understand the landscape this ensuring nothing but monolithic servers and communities exist and no small communities will ever be populated.

What's unique or special about yours, as opposed to lemmy or kbin or any of the others? Especially if your issue with kbin is just the ui, it seems like making an app for an already established user base might be a better use of your time. If you're just doing it for kicks that's fine I'm not trying to bash that, I'm just curious. If you're planning to federate eventually does it do anything differently to lemmy? What's the use case?

I agree with low effort posts here on lemmy and kbin. But it's mostly a end-user problem, not the software

I have a few kbin communities subscribed from Lemmy and interaction works fine.

If you don't use the webinterface a lot, it probably doesn't matter which one of the two you are using.

At least one mistake in there though, since you can definitely block instances in Kbin too. It's not the most obvious though.

Also:

• kbin does have an instance wide moderation log in the footer: https://kbin.social/modlog
• kbin supports markdown, though it does not have a preview feature yet
• kbin allows you to block users just like you can block magazines and domains, though there is no way to filter specific words (yet)
• (probably a few more, but those were the ones that I noticed)

@maxeddy