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I see a very small minority of people using Kbin, but I don't understand why.

Is this just a coincidence and did some people choose Kbin over Lemmy or is there a good reason to use Kbin?

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[–] tuto193@lemmy.world 101 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Apart from what has already been said (politics, basic UI) there are a couple more things worth mentioning:

  • Kbin's interface is muuuch more customizable than lemmy's: browsing form a web browser (desktop or mobile) let's you modify your viewing experience as much as any mobile app for lemmy (but lemmly itself doesn't). From infinite scrolling vs pages to font sizes and such.
  • kbin allows for (mastodon-like) boosting of posts, which is like a super-upvote that lemmy just doesn't have.
  • on kbin you can subscribe to mastodon users aka federate with mastodon. Something that lemmy also can't.

Other than that only personal taste matters in the end, and both federate with eachother, so enjoy it from wherever you are.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I was confused what boosting is. Docs said it's basically a repost/share.

So I think super like is misleading. Even if your super liking is the reason you share it, they're two different things.

(I may not necessarily want to share/share-promote hat I super-like. What I share is curation too.)

[–] harmonea@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So I think super like is misleading

It's literally not. Over here, on top of the "repost to your profile under your boosts section" functionality it's intended to have, it also counts as 2x rep for the poster. It really, truly is also a "super-like."

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] harmonea@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The presence or absence of that single word doesn't change the fact that nothing OP said was wrong eh ;P

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nobody claimed what they said was wrong. The thesis is that it may be misleading (through omission of the second half of what it does).

[–] harmonea@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

See, the problem here is that you're treating an off-the-cuff casual explanation as a "thesis." Please don't bring this absurd habit over here, where people have to feel compelled to cover absolutely every interpretation and hedge every outlier for fear of getting nitpicked to hell and back. Literally no one enjoyed that environment.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

I pointed out it does more. You replied claiming "It’s literally not." which is simply factually wrong.

Are you saying nobody should point that out? On this discussion platform?

You could have just left it there. If you have that much of a problem with the word thesis maybe you're the one who shouldn't take things so literally. If you have a problem with how this went, maybe you should not make false statements or let it go earlier.

I don't think there's a need to cover everything at all.

[–] CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I think it’s reasonable to argue, “a super like that also shares the post is functionally different from just a super like.” It doesn’t seem nit-picky when discussing the reasons why someone might choose one service over another to want to be precise about the mechanics of one of those services, no?

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Also the ability for users to block instances and domain like mastodon has, which is pretty cool.

[–] Naminreb@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is a big one. There were some contributions from either instances or bots on my feed I didn’t like that I just blocked, and my feed is fine now. No need to ask for defederation of the whole community when you can do it yourself.

[–] bug@lemmy.one 7 points 2 years ago

You can block users/bots on Lemmy too

[–] BadWolf@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m still searching everywhere for the ability to block entire instances in kbin (on mobile). Can you please elaborate on how it is done? I only see magazine pages with the block option.

[–] Naminreb@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

If you click on the menu next to the Kbin logo, at the top there’s a clog and a triangle. The triangle is the federation one.

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

There's also several contributors who are actively working on improving the settings and adding in new features. I've been proposing a few changes for the mobile UI, letting you change up the mobile layout but all of that things take time (and add complexity) so it's slow moving