Obviously this will be a biased post becasue I’m asking on lemmy, but I wanted to hear opinions, since I find kbin’s interface to be really awkward and all over the place

  • IronRain@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I started off with Kbin, and it was great because it was initially more straightforward with a more sensible UI. But since they didn’t release an API quickly enough, apps like Voyager came in, so I’ve switched to Lemmy.

    It also looks like the UI/UX hasn’t changed much when I logged into Kbin, so it feels significantly more stagnant. And once Sync for Lemmy hits the Play Store, I’m probably going to stick with it.

  • HousePanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com
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    1 year ago

    While I like the UI/UX experience of Kbin, I will still choose Lemmy for the more reddit-like experience that it offers. I find kbin’s nomenclature of magazines as being equivalent to sub-reddits awkward. Furthermore, it’s trying to be a blend of twitter and reddit. I like the general free/open source approach of one tool for one job rather than trying to do a bunch of different things sub-optimally.

    • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Agree. I if I want a twitter-like experience I’ll open Mastodon. Lets me keep separate identities too, which is nice.

  • Rusty@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy for me.

    I’ve casually browsed kbin a few times and the interface seems a bit scattered and confusing to me.

  • Zarxrax@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you want to use a 3rd party app on your phone to browse, then Lemmy is the only choice.

    I tried Kbin before I tried Lemmy, and I didn’t really like the interface of Kbin much. I’m not really sure what else Kbin has going for it other than the interface. With Lemmy there are actually multiple different interfaces you can use. So as someone who likes choice, Lemmy is the one for me.

  • –Phase–@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I also found Kbin’s interface fairly awkward and all over the place. Lemmy’s Reddit-style interface is more to my preference personally. If you’re concerned about missing out on content from Kbin communities as I was when I first migrated, you can easily subscribe to Kbin magazines through the Lemmy Explorer, that way you’ll still be able to see stuff from Kbin without having to deal with Kbin’s UI.

      • –Phase–@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Oh, I know what the issue there is. Apparently because Kbin is based on an older version of the ActivityPub protocol, when Kbin magazines are synced into Lemmy, posts from before the magazine was synced don’t show up. The only posts that show up on Lemmy are ones made after the magazine is synced, unlike the way it works between Lemmy instances where everything is synced all at once. I’m not sure if there’s anything the Lemmy devs can do to fix this. It might take Kbin switching to the latest version of the ActivityPub protocol for this to stop being an issue, but who knows if that’ll ever happen.