I am torn. Lemmy feels slimmer and easier to use with a wider variety of apps. Kbin has an advantage of being an “all-in-one” solution for the Fediverse with a better UI.

That said I use Mastodon for microblogging, so Kbin having that built in only clutters the site in my particular use case. While Kbin has a better UI it’s also more drab in color and harder to navigate. Kbin also has this karma/points system which feels odd. It skews into the negative VERY easily and is displayed on your profile. I prefer Lemmy’s upvote/downvote system but doesn’t have a permanent karma/points system.

I’ve been reading Lemmy is growing much faster than Kbin, but then I hear that “it’s all bots” and not real growth.

Where do you stand on this? Where do you think you’ll find yourself when this all shakes out?

  • lixus98@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There’s multiple things to consider, both are great options, but right now I’m liking kbin more for these reasons:

    • Better algorithm, when I go to my homepage I feel that the site is full of new, active content, where people are having discussions.
    • Integration with Mastodon, I like to take a peek from time to time on the Microblog tab.
    • No feed bug. Lemmy has a problem where it would show every single new post on top of the feed (I know this is being fixed)

    Overall both Lemmy and kbin are in their infancy and I expect both to get better to a point where choosing between them won’t come down to which one of the two have less bugs, and more focused in the features and appearance you want, this ofc will change with the many apps being developed, since they will be vastly different.
    I might end up in Lemmy or I might stay on kbin, it depends which one feels more “active” to me.