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Vibe check: What are your impressions and experiences of Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and Beehaw? (kbin.run)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by NaClKnight@kbin.run to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Exactly what the title says.

What has your experience been on any of those platforms? Which captures more of your time? Why?

I'm relatively new here but I've read a little on the reddit-like platforms. I (mostly) understand what's a fork of what or what some of the technical differences are, but I'm curious about the vibes and communities.

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[–] CharlesReed@kbin.run 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children)

kbin (at least kbin.social) has a nice little community, but we're holding on by a thread over there since we've been overrun with spammers and nothing is really being done to combat it. A good chunk of people have jumped ship because of it, but we're still trying to fight where we can.

I made an mbin alt, but I haven't really hung out enough here to get a proper feel of it. Honestly it feels like looking through a window to the rest of the fediverse. If there's any chill mbin (edit) ~~instances~~ magazines, I'd love to know!

Beehaw seems to have the most positive vibes, and I really like that. It seems small, but they're pretty active. I mainly enjoy their gaming community.

I think I interact the most with Lemmy, but that's probably because that's where most active instances are. You'll get a lot more different takes on there than anywhere else, some great, some not so great, but that comes with any site where you bring a bunch of people together.

Of course, these are from my experience and opinion. I'm interested to see others' takes.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

It's because beehaw mandates its positivity. I once called out one of their posts as being fascist and they banned me for being rude about it.

I feel like any place that forces people to be positive in a world where there's so much injustice is always going to passively side with evil.

[–] NaClKnight@kbin.run 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The mod history you posted definitely makes it look like they have a clear idea what kind of bikini/community they want and you don't fit and neither of you were gonna change.

I've got negative interest in Beehaw. I'm not defending them or calling you a malcontent. They might be actual fascists for all i know. I've had 0 interactions with them.

Just saying that it's clear who they want and it's not you

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I get you're afraid of saying the quiet part out loud out of fear of backlash, thankfully i'm here to point that out so people don't miss it.

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