Damn you! /s
hemmes
joined 2 years ago
No affiliation to Christian Selig or the Apollo app that I’ve read. I’ve been on a couple of Lemmy instances and Kbin.social for about four weeks now (a couple of days after Christian posted about the API charges) and always found content and activity was much greater on Lemmy. All my Lemmy instances have about the same Active/Top listings (I didn’t use Hot sorting in Reddit and not using it with Lemmy, it’s not how I like to view).
I was drawn to the interface of Kbin like everyone else, but I quickly realized that the interface was buggy and clunky and not ready for prime time. It very well may perfect everything it is aiming to achieve. It appears they're trying to make it easy for users to interact with Mastodon style servers and Lemmy style servers, and joining the features of both worlds. That sounds pretty cool if it can be done right. But I want my votes to count, I want it to be easy to cross post or boost (these are different) and yes I'd love to interact with Mastodon also but only if those other things work correctly, that's just how I like to get into my threads and conversations while consuming posts.
Add your image to the link rather than the body so we can see it while scrolling.
For simplicity, you can just add Kbin.social to the Fediverse cloud in the second row. You'll see all the same content that we all see, but with a different coat of paint.
Think of it like viewing the Internet with different browsers chrome, Firefox, or Safari.
There are some functional differences to KBin, like the ability to boost, which is like a Twitter retweet, but without getting into the weeds on that stuff, it really is just the same thing with a different interface.
Beehaw is notoriously strict with their content and philosophical approach to federation. Last I checked they banned hundreds of instances. That’s not my style. I looked for a well moderated instance that left the banning to the user and kept the server up to date and running. In fact I think they still have no instances banned yet. VLemmy did make me register and wait for approval which happened that same day and it’s been a real pleasure.
I have accounts on other instances and Kbin and all instances seem to carry about the same posts when sorting by All. The fediverse requires the user to search a bit more for the community that fits them best, and that’s a good thing.
Try a few instances and platforms. Kbin is pretty cool but not really my thing, I love Mastodon and my instance (shout out to mas.to and @rodti@mas.to).
Yeah, I think it’s a great idea for larger groups or corporations.
One of us, one of us…
This is only on Android?
Regular Noam Chomsky over here