• Pamasich@kbin.social
    85·
    1 year ago

    I got a response from them on Reddit:

    We didn’t know which platform would take off, and we were nervous that because Kbin and Lemmy are so similar one platform might shut down in some sort of consolidation down the road. Also when we made them, each had very serious drawbacks for our media (Lemmy needs a lot of clicking to access the media, while kbin turned any media that wasn’t in a 3:4 aspect ratio into a funhouse mirror.) So each of us took a community and somewhere down the line we’ll re-evaluate.

    • Scanzy@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      That makes a lot of sense.

      I was tempted to go with kbin when I switched, because it just looks cleaner and better designed. I’m not sure why kbin isn’t more popular, but I’m sticking with the pack right now on lemmy.

      • CoderKat@lemm.ee
        8·
        1 year ago

        Personally I started with kbin and think the dev of it is great. But it’s simply not as far along IMO. At least when I was using it, it was critically missing the ability to collapse comments. That single feature is huuuuge for me and probably the most prominent thing that got me to switch to Lemmy.

        It also doesn’t have an API yet, which means that mobile apps aren’t likely to target it. Though I’ve personally been using a browser cause I haven’t found any apps to be good enough yet.

        Also, the notifications of kbin felt very buggy to me. I missed a lot of notifications and even when they worked, they don’t show the notification or even what the thread title is, so you have to click each one individually. IIRC, clicking the notification also didn’t work if your comment wasn’t on the first page of comments.

        • Openmindedskeptic@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          2·
          1 year ago

          It’s still lacking the collapse a comment ability! I am like when are they going to fix that?

          But it’s a much much newer instance. We’ll see, but I think it has potential.

      • Desistance@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        From what I understand, /kbin is not as mature. It’s still an early beta. I’m not sure who designed Lemmy’s ui but it could use some spit polish.

      • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
        1·
        1 year ago

        I like how Lemmy looks simpler and more lightweight. Also Kbin is trying to do 2 things instead of focusing on one thing and I don’t think that’s a good idea.