Is it speed? Features? Ease of development? Just curious why lemmy is seeing more activity as opposed to other networks.

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As someone who first switched to lemmy, and then quickly switched to kbin due to rampant de-federation in the lemmy world, I say I just first heard about lemmy.
But, Kbin is much more modern, and spectating the changes done in the last days alone, it moves fast and attracts many developers while all lemmy 0.18 did was breaking federation with kbin. I can fully recommend the switch to Kbin, its that good.

There is also the issue of Lemmy being developed by a group of genocide denying tankies.

About Tildes, it seems to be more of a clone of Digg in the old days.

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Thanks will give kbin a second look. Already made an account there just to “reserve” my username :)

Although to be fair, initial impressions are quite good already. :)

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Your name is pretty badass

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attracts many developers

I feel like lemmy is significantly more active on that front? In addition to the base code, it seems to have attracted several dozen third party apps and interfaces. Mostly Lemmy exclusive.

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A fantastic answer, though I’ll add that OP is likely unaware that the vast majority of the “growth” on Lemmy is actually due to bot accounts. Which is somewhat irrelevant as it is still an enormous platform even after accounting for that.

Also I saw that r/ModCoord leaned more towards Lemmy, seemed somewhat biased against Kbin, and was reportedly enormously biased against Squabbles even to the point of deleting posts trying to talk about it (which not being able to check deleted posts anymore, I did not try to verify). That would make sense then that that could be why people heard about Lemmy before hearing about Kbin.

Plus the mobile app too - although I’m mostly happy with the browser view of kbin (for reading, though writing comments in it is a huge pain).

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Yeah i heard of Lemmy first, but when I found out about the developers being tankies I switched to Kbin. I actually prefer Kbin a lot now! It’s obviously still earlier in development but I think it shows more promise.

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I personally also went with Lemmy first but switched to Kbin after 2 days because I preferred it’s interface (as well as the full transparency on up/downvotes).

I heard about Tildes way before all the API stuff went down (like 2021-ish) but a text only platform just never was my cup of tea, personally.

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I have never heard of Tildes before, but checked it out now since you said it’s text only.

I actually kind of like the look of that site - would have loved to see it as a federated text-only alternative to Lemmy and kbin!

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Tildes is already dead.

Look at the front page. You can’t even join unless you know someone, to recover your password you need to send an email, and the most upvoted post has 500 votes.

I mean, the about section has a philosophy section which likely took longer to write than was taken designing the website, and one of the top posts is about how they’re going reorganise everything into their equivalent of subreddits. What’s the point if you only have 100 users?

Reddit thinks they don’t need mods.

Tildes thinks they don’t need users.

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It’s for all these reasons I’m fascinated Kbin hasn’t received a larger influx of new users. It seems truly the easiest to easily switch from Reddit, you just need a browser.

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Well, there’s the thing, you need a browser. You’d be surprised how many newer Reddit users access the site primarily or even exclusively on their phones, and who tend to use apps rather than their mobile browser.

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Artemis is in the works for a native android client, but, also, kbin is a Progressive Web App on mobile. By that I mean, you can go to the site with chrome, firefox, etc, click the menu, and find “Install” or “Install App”. That will give you an icon to put on your home screen, which will just open the site like a standalone app. But using your browser. Which means if you use Firefox mobile, you can still use extensions and user scripts and such if you want to.

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I use kbin primarily on a browser (firefox) on mobile. My only complaint is the side menu options for aubscribing/blocking being located at the bottom of the page instead of higher up.

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Kbin already is, it was very much a side project by Ernest that was no where near as mature as Lemmy. As it stands it is growing extremely fast, proportionally it is way more active and grows faster than Lemmy itself. Kbin.social iirc is neck and neck with Lemmy World.

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Kbin.social was not really ready to accept a large user amount until a few days ago when they did a large update to the infrastructure, also a little more then a week ago the site still had stability issues and would error out a lot. That just changed and now it is ready to grow faster. But, so far 51k users on kbin.social already.

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Honestly, I’ve appreciated the smaller community size here. Sure there are less niche communities with actual users like reddit, but there is just a much smaller concentration of idiots here than other social media sites, which makes actually talking about shit fun, rather than infuriating.

Part of the reason I stuck around even after all the redditors swam back is because I like the company here much more.

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Arguably it’s probably still not ready - I have heard rumours that running a kbin instance is still much more complicated than Lemmy, and that moderation tools are still somewhat lacking. Which probably explains why there are currently more Lemmy instances out there than kbin.

The confusing thing is that despite this, kbin.social seems spectacularly well moderated at the mement. I guess that’s partly because ernest is a champion, and partly because it didn’t have to deal with the same insane influx of users that Lemmy has.

Still - I think the slow growth model benefits kbin quite nicely, and with federation it doesn’t really matter to the feasibility of the platform whether people are here or on Lemmy. :)

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I wouldn’t say defederation is rampant, but there were a few very high profile examples that hit right when people were new. Specifically, Beehaw/LW and Exploding Heads/everyone. Plus the whole thing about NSFW content and types.

While it’s true that many of the original devs have problematic views, it’s not really meaningful. The software is open source, there are tons of new developers (with varying views), and the code has nothing to perpetuate their ideas. In fact, they are pretty isolated on their own instance (Lemmygrad) since everyone defederates them almost immediately.

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Worth noting that lemmy.ml is also run by the developers as their general instance (while Lemmygrad is the tankie one). It’s easily forgotten at least for kbin users though, as federation with it has been somewhat broken for a while now.

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Besides lemmygrad and explodingheads which are truly legitimate cases, defederation just hurts everyone. New users just expect to sub to the communities they like on reddit. That includes NSFW because that simply is something people want, and it never was an issue on reddit. The whole discussion on larger lemmy is childish and prude.

And about the developers, lemmygrad is largely isolated, but lemmy.ml is not and those same tankies run that. In fact its also the only lemmy instance that blocks all kbin instances via blocking the kbin user-agent. The development is also still largely steered by those tankies.

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The NSFW stuff was/is a bit more complicated than it might appear on the surface. A lot of instances do not allow NSFW. No judgement, it is what it is. But people on those instances could sub to NSFW communities elsewhere, primarily LemmyNSFW. Less so now, but for a while it was common for those posts/communities to not be tagged NSFW, which caused them to show up on All for people that didn’t want to see it.

Then there was the question about types of NSFW content. Even people that enjoy your standard porn categories had lines they didn’t want crossed in their feed. Specifically animated/cgi CSAM and scat. The former is illegal in some jurisdictions, and caused a different instance (name withheld) to be widely defederated. The latter was more of an issue with limited tools, but the result was the same- either LemmyNSFW blocks that (at least until better tools are available), or they also get cut off.

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You are correct that there’s overlap of users with lemmy.ml, but I don’t see much of the offensive content coming from there. If nothing else, they put their masks on when on that instance. I’m sure there are people on EH with alts elsewhere, but they aren’t given the free reign to cause the same problems.

Lemmy.ml is no longer a recommended instance, and probably won’t be again. But yes, I agree with you that the confusion caused by defederation is a bad thing.

Does some of them being tankies have an effect on the code?

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Seconding the kbin love. It’s closest to the Reddit experience for me and I don’t mind using my browser for it on my phone.

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A API is in the works, and once that happened apps should pop up like they do for Lemmy.

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About Tildes, it seems to be more of a clone of Digg in the old days.

It may resemble digg 1.0, but it’s intended as a spiritual successor to pre-diggpocalypse reddit. It’s a project by the guy who originally built Automod and is very much like Reddit was just prior to the launch of the subreddit system - two years before digg 4.0 launched and the refugees started arriving.

Intended to be more of a wide-open commons than a platform for subdivided or niche communities.

Tildes has very limited adoption during the reddit protests because it’s on an invite system and doesn’t want a huge influx of new people all at once, for all that it is accepting and even seeking growth over time.

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It looks dead.

You can’t even join unless you know someone, to recover your password you need to send an email, and the most upvoted post has 500 votes.

The about section has a philosophy section which likely took longer to write than was taken designing the website, and one of the top posts is about how they’re going reorganise everything into their equivalent of subreddits. What’s the point if you only have 100 users?

Reddit thinks they don’t need mods. Tildes seems to think they don’t need users.

it’s intended as a spiritual successor to pre-diggpocalypse reddit.

Because the guy who created it, seemingly doesn’t get that times have changed. I mean, the nokia 3310 was a great phone in its day, but it’s 2023.

And I get that they don’t care, but if your main audience is former mods who like organising things without the interference of users, they’re not going to have enough or sufficiently interesting content to attract critical mass and a wider audience.

At which point, you might as well turn your reddit replacement into a wordpress blog and have the same discussions you’re having now in the comment section. Because unlike tildes, people are working on plugins which will allow wordpress to become fully part of the fediverse.

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This reads a lot like you’re kind of working to shit on them, though.

It looks dead.

Ok? I don’t know how you’d get that impression and you don’t really elaborate, but I don’t really see what might lead to that impression.

You can’t even join unless you know someone, to recover your password you need to send an email, and the most upvoted post has 500 votes.

Yeah. Invite systems are a valid solution when you’re looking to limit the pace of growth, and social media sites like aggregators often want to rate-limit growth in order to avoid an Eternal September moment changing their culture. Password recovery is amusingly antiquated. Their scoring works different and the numbers don’t translate 1:1.

The about section has a philosophy section which likely took longer to write than was taken designing the website, and one of the top posts is about how they’re going reorganise everything into their equivalent of subreddits. What’s the point if you only have 100 users?

Yeah. Welcome to Tildes, a site utterly dedicated to high-concept, high-content, participation and engagement - with near every aspect of its design based around discouraging low-bar contribution and encouraging effortposts. If you personally find a long philosophy section and a ultra-simple aesthetic to be disengaging to you - then they’re probably working as intended, and you’re just not the target demographic. They’re reaching about the same growth point as Reddit did when it made that decision themselves, and from what he said in the announcement they’re facing the same problems. They’re sitting at numbers well above “100 users” though, - as mentioned, they’re not trying to be a highly-active and super-busy space. Several thousand users on Tildes produce a much smaller total footprint than several thousand users on lemmy or kbin.

Because the guy who created it, seemingly doesn’t get that times have changed. I mean, the nokia 3310 was a great phone in its day, but it’s 2023.

And I get that they don’t care, but if your main audience is former mods who like organising things without the interference of users, they’re not going to have enough or sufficiently interesting content to attract critical mass and a wider audience.

At which point, you might as well turn your reddit replacement into a wordpress blog and have the same discussions you’re having now in the comment section. Because unlike tildes, people are working on plugins which will allow wordpress to become fully part of the fediverse.

This is the part where it’s just like … did Demiorz kill your dog and fuck your wife or something? Because these read as if it’s coming from a pretty personal set of feelings for you.

It’s a website where you are not the target user. That’s fine. You don’t need to hate them for that. They don’t need to change for you.

If this whole thing isn’t personal between you and them and is simply about the fact that they’re a ‘reddit alternative’ that isn’t the Fediverse, I think playing Websites We Use like it’s sports teams where our guys are the best and everyone else is shit is … kinda juvenile.

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My only gripe with kbin is that it’s made with PHP and lemmy is Rust. But it’s only a childish gripe, I know hahahaha

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You should always use the language you are most comfortable with, and for ernest that simply is PHP. Its not what I would have chosen either, but things like the facebook and telegram backends are in PHP and they certainly work very well.

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I’ve been using both kbin and a lemmy instance since the blackout. Both have been fine overall, but kbin has a slight edge in usability.

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I have an account on both. But I timed myself for about 5 minutes on both Kbin and Lemmy (yes I am that kind of person) to see which I found more intuitive, fun etc and just felt like Kbin worked better for me. Just feels more natural somehow

But it’s also good that there’s different options for different people and everyone’s not just having to use one centralised website like the one most of us have just come from…

I have also signed up to Squabbles which is another centralised service, kind of a cross between Twitter and Reddit. It’s so-so, but a lot more interesting than tildes

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There is also the issue of Lemmy being developed by a group of genocide denying tankies.

That’s probably the one thing that will catch up to them. I think there will inevitably be a hard-fork of the codebase in order to get away from the original devs.

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