Why do you use one over the other? Also, what’s the deal with Calckey?

  • Other_Goblin@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    The UI on kbin is awful I can’t even tell what I’m doing on the mobile site. The desktop site infinitely loops the cloudflare thing lol. Never even seen it.

  • FIST_FILLET@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    i made a lemmy account before i found out about kbin, and i’m so glad i found kbin. lemmy worked alright, but it seemed like a very unfinished product. the UI gave me the same feeling that the “new” reddit design does (overly mobile-oriented), which is why i’m so so so happy that kbin’s UI seems to be overly desktop-focused.

    bonus points for kbin (and i don’t know if these are intentional or just coincidences that i’m overthinking):

    • comment scores are subtly pushed to the right of the box, which seems like a great anti-bandwagoning design choice. this way, the immediate focus is on the content of the comment instead of an arbitrary score based on what everyone else thinks of it. less voting prejudice!
    • you gotta scroll all the way to the bottom (i think? or maybe i just don’t know how to use the site) to get to the “add comment” input field. maybe this will make people read more of the ongoing talk before contributing with their own points

    anyway, happy to be here! let’s make it an amazing place

    • aha20395@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      I’m only using this on mobile but yeah same thoughts, only things I want to change that I like about reddit are unlimited scrolling, search by magazine, post or user and collapsing comment tress but this is all in time, also I want to hide user avatars.

      There’s other quality of life improvements such as speed, how media is handled but mainly these will change with time and money, I donated $5 and will donate more as I see progression but I think @ernest is really on to something here, much better than lemmy and if the population can grow we can get some nice communities on here and be something similar to but better than reddit.

      • sab@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        Infinite scrolling can be enabled in the settings! On mobile:

        1. Press the kbin logo with the burger meny symbol to the top left
        2. Click on the cog symbol on the right hand side
        3. Under general, enable infinite scroll
        4. Profit? I don’t know, I prefer the internet slow and old school, so I haven’t actually tested it myself :)
  • dichtbringer@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I made a user both on kbin.social and lemmy.world and I’ve tried around a lot with both, testing out federation etc. I like the lemmy interface a bit better I think, it feels more responsive and overall performance seems a bit better.

    On the other hand kbin wins out when handling content, I like how threads and microblogs are both easily accessable, on lemmy this is a bit more confusing. Also it’s easier to discover/subscribe to new stuff anywhere on kbin.

    I’m not sure which one I will eventually use, bur right now it’s 100% kbin because of this lemmy bug: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3008
    It constantly happens and makes the main feed basically useless as everything keeps jumping around constantly.

  • Deliverator@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I have an account on both but if I had my preference I’d say kbin is the winner. I’ve been on reddit since 2011 and this reminds me of how it felt to join reddit back then

  • aroom@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Calckey is a great microblogging app from the fediverse. It’s compatible with activity pub, you can even import your mastodon account.