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Disclaimer: I am not a dev, my technical understanding is limited, and I only discovered kbin today.

The difference is that they are running completely different software, despite speaking the same* language ('protocol'). There may be some things one software does that another can't. I wonder if it's easier to answer what distinguishes it, or what makes them similar. They're both link aggregators (the same kind of website as reddit, e.g. people post links to groups and they get voted up or down by subscribers), and they're both able to process each other's posts and see each other's groups (kbin calls them magazines, apparently, while we call them communities. I don't know if that's purely semantic or if there is a profound difference). So as far as basic usage goes, both can make a post and unless they do something fancy, the other site can read and reply to it.

kbin has a different visual layout and appears to have more focus on also having microblogging and social media features within those groups, we don't have that feature and integration with Mastodon can be a bit stranger here (such as them replying to replies, in my experience it doesn't nest neatly like ours do, instead just showing as a reply to the original post, and maybe that's unavoidable when a twitter-like thread without proper comment replying has to fit our comments layout). It seems Lemmy has stayed closer to what reddit is like, while kbin has strayed into a more experimental approach.

kbin says "This is a very early beta version, and a lot of features are currently broken or in active development, such as federation" (and I have noticed the federation doesn't show some posts yet which would be expected to show). Lemmy doesn't seem to have such disclaimers. It's current version number suggests it is considered more mature, but still not particularly stable either.

kbin seems to have a mobile app under development, while Lemmy's seem to be more mature. That said, I've never used one.

Hah, I don't even have a fireplace, candles or a warm drink. I'm a fraud!

Steve is Steve.... sounds too convenient to be true.

This is probably my least enigmatic pseudonym, but maybe someone will have something to say about it.

New challenge: design a way a room full of people can deduce who really farted.

Yep, and I'll add that I don't even think the admin was hate-filled, but as a result of their ultra-freedom ideals, they tolerated hatred and soon realized they were surrounded by it, and it wasn't just edginess or banter to get reactions out of progressives.

I seriously think it was something like git add

I was probably beyond tired.

I haven't checked Lemmy, but I've heard some projects intentionally tag a few easy low-priority features that are recommended for beginners to try and tackle. I've made some really minor CSS theming changes and basic frontend layout edits, the kind of thing which is pretty safe and doesn't require expertise. Small things, but with a noticeable effect (especially when we had most of the Lemmy sites all using the same theme, so making slightly custom themes went a long way towards making it clear they are related but distinct)

I open it up and see beautiful moving colours! hohahaha! and everything feeeels sloower

I'll give a +1 for Mint and Pop_OS!, especially Mint (Cinnamon edition) for people who don't want to learn a new layout either.

At some point, I realize that I'm furiously clicking the up arrow twenty times just to reenter a command that was two words long anyway and far quicker to type out. Not even CTRL+R would make it more efferent than typing.

Hmm, now that I think about it, I want to say a GUI provides a (potentially false) sense of security.

At the very least, it gives an intuitive sense of direction, so that you can use a program with very little understanding of it. Things like Handbrake over ffmpeg I'd prefer over having to look up how to do 2-pass conversions online every time I want to make one.