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[–] victron@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (3 children)

before the whole reddit clusterfuck and blackout started I created both kbin and lemmy accounts. One of those is just gathering dust

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah, I have a kbin account as well, but I prefer Lemmy so far, since it actually has a data API and I prefer the web interface over that of kbin (and now we have old.lemmy.world!)

I am test driving Artemis for kbin, but Hariette and her team have an uphill battle until kbin comes up with an API, so development has been slow. Not their fault, of course.

[–] hariette@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

API is almost done! Been using an internal build of the app that uses Artemis’ kbin instance with those changes. And oh god is so much better 👌

So we’re nearing a point where apps for kbin will start popping up ✨

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's great news!

[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL about old.lemmy.world, cool!

[–] wason@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's also m.lemmy.world running Voyager (formerly wefwef).

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haha, that's awesome! TIL

[–] victron@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The more options the better. For now Lemmy is good and the apps are progressing at an awesome pace, honestly didn't expect that.

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ace in the hole that Lemmy and kbin have is that it doesn't matter which one you prefer because they can talk to each other. Can't say the same about Squabbles.

[–] victron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, until someone decides to pull a beehaw and defederate, that's why I have a kbin account too, but haven't had the need to use it that much.

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just don't care for kbin's interface. It definitely seems to be a love it or hate it type of thing. I like that Lemmy is trying to be more of a Reddit replacement, while kbin fans seem to like that it doesn't feel like one.

BeeHaw gives me a toxic positivity vibe, so losing them from lemmy.world isn't a big deal. I'd argue that they should not federate with anyone, but I can't tell them what to do.

[–] victron@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, since Lemmy.world started to grow like a mf, I don't miss beehaw very much tbh, it absolutely scratches that early reddit itch

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wtf that's awesome! Have they open sourced that?

EDIT: I found it https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

my instance doesn't have that thingy

[–] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. I just don't have a reason to use kbin. The interface is not my cup of tea and I don't like the way they've handled communities or 'mAgAzInEs'.

[–] victron@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, also the fact that they have... microblogging or something? I have mastodon for that.

[–] Entropywins@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago

Why you letting your lemmy account gather dust?