I jump between kbin and Lemmy fairly often, and it just seems like most content/communities end up settling on Lemmy. Which kbin communities do you actually think are better than the alternatives?

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  • tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net
    30·
    1 year ago

    I don’t notice whether communities are kbin or Lemmy, so no idea. I think many communities being on Lemmy partly comes from that being released a few years earlier.

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
      91·
      1 year ago

      I don’t notice whether communities are kbin or Lemmy

      i think this is the way it should really work… the underlying software should be almost transparent/irrelevant

      the question shouldnt be ‘what cool kbin communities are there’. it should be ‘what are the cool communities at %instance%’ (kbin.social,beehaw.org, etc)

    • FaceDeer@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, this is like choosing which websites to follow based on whether they use Apache as a server. I don’t really get it.

    • ernest@kbin.social
      33·
      1 year ago

      This feature stopped working for some reason during the development of these software. In the coming weeks, I’ll be working intensively to improve communication in the fediverse, including moderation.

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I’ve kind of been waiting for federation to start working better before exploring kbin communities. The lack of moderation is already bad, but I have also experienced comments/votes not federating for hours or sometimes not ever. It’s very frustrating to make a contribution to the discussion and then come back the next day and realize no one actually saw it because it didn’t federate properly.

  • TeaHands@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’d love to jump in here with a big active list, and I am actually subbed to quite a lot of Kbin magazines, but the problem is as you say, it just didn’t really take off in the same way Lemmy did. Almost everything I’m subscribed to there, despite making a good go of it in the very early days, is now dead.

    Notable exception: [email protected]

    Unfortunately a big part of that is because during the busiest part of the migration, there was an issue on Kbin where Ernest had to (if I’m remembering this correctly) enable some kind of Cloudflare protection that had the side effect of completely breaking federation between the two platforms. By the time it came back up and we could access Kbin mags again, due to the massive influx of people on Lemmy those communities had mostly settled here instead.

    Given that there are still federation issues to this day as well as the moderation issues (I see Ernest’s reply in this thread and honestly very much respect how hard he’s been working, but factually these are still problems), I just don’t think it makes sense for people to be trying to build magazines there IF they’re wanting the maximum numbers. Obviously if you’re more interested in attracting Kbin folks than Lemmy, then it makes perfect sense.

    Anyway here are some I’m subbed to, it doesn’t hurt to add to your sub list even if there are more active Lemmy duplicates, but yeah there’s not much there for some of them :(