This is not an attempt to convert Lemmy users, nor is it a slight on Lemmy. I’m sure there are plenty of reasons why Lemmy works better for some, and I love the fact that we not only have multiple choices, but multiple choices that allow us to interact with each other regardless! It’s amazing. Lemmy is great, no shade.

With that said…

Why YSK: I see a lot of users posting frequent questions about Lemmy that are currently answered by kbin.

For example:

  • The ability to block a whole domain, or subscribe to one
  • The ability to subscribe to individual users
  • A built-in search tool to find communities all over fedi (kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon groups, etc.) with an indication of how active they are
  • Mitigation for the “tracking pixel” issue

I find that almost every day, I see Lemmy users asking about features and I think, “well, kbin does that.” I think it would be worthwhile for more users to check into both platforms and decide which might be best for them.

  • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
    95·
    1 year ago

    You are correct about all of those things, but KBin doesn’t have any currently released mobile apps and I like to have a mobile app. Ultimately KBin will probably have mobile apps soon and some of those features above will probably eventually be added to Lemmy, so it’s just a case of what’s the most important to us now.

    • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
      72·
      1 year ago

      There’s been a heap of development on making the PWA really useful on mobile specifically. Being a community project it all takes a while to get these various changes out into prod (like the comment toggling functionally)

      Soon I’m sure we’ll get a mobile app with the upcoming API release, but until then hopefully these mobile changes keep everyone happy :)

    • Pietson@kbin.social
      74·
      1 year ago

      I’ve made a shortcut in Firefox to add the kbin mobile site to my home screen and it is essentially indistinguishable from a mobile app like this.

      • SimpleDev@lemmy.world
        281·
        1 year ago

        While PWA sites are nice I’ve never personally used one that felt as good or as consistent as a native application.

        As much as my web dev heart would love to say they were haha.

        • jimmy90@lemmy.world
          31·
          1 year ago

          Agreed but if a lot of effort is put into the mobile web it can get very very close. Now Lemmy ui will have a rust/tailwind version, things are going to get very interesting 😀

        • tjhart85@kbin.social
          21·
          1 year ago

          It’s nowhere near as nice as a mobile app, but nowhere near as horrible as you’d expect either. All in all, I’m happy enough with it, but am anxiously waiting for Artemis to release (and for an official API to be created to allow others the ability without having to scrape).