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I've been happy with Kbin so far. It has a pretty standard sign-up process (username, password, email, verify email), followed by subscribing to a few magazines

I've been happy with Kbin so far. It has a pretty standard sign-up process (username, password, email, verify email), followed by subscribing to a few magazines (subreddit equivalents) and then you're free to browse and post. There's enough new content flowing that I personally don't feel I ever run out of things to browse. It's federated with Lemmy and Mastodon, so posts from those platforms seamlessly appear in the feeds, and they behave as though it's all under the one Kbin instance. https://kbin.social https://kbin.social

joshuawitzer 3y ago
Thanks for your recommendation.
dragontamer 3y ago
> so posts from those platforms seamlessly appear in the feeds But not vice versa. Lemmy users cannot visit kbin.social magazines with capital-letters. Lemmy doesn't understand that capital-letters could exist in a name.
- gpm 3y ago
  Kbin is planning on fixing the case-sensitive-ness: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/81 https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/81 Kbin in general is super new software, there's a lot of nits that need fixing like this. It works surprisingly well considering how young it is.
  - dragontamer 3y ago
    Thanks for this. I'm new to the Fediverse, so I don't know if kbin was planning on fixing their processing or if Lemmy was planning to switch to case-sensitive. I guess devs are deciding upon case-insensitive largely across the Fediverse?
    - gpm 3y ago
      > I guess devs are deciding upon case-insensitive largely across the Fediverse? That's my understanding, but I'm just a spectator.
tills13 3y ago
The whole reason (well, the majority of the reason) is that my favorite reddit phone app is going away at the end of the month. This is kind of a deal-breaker for me as bespoke app experiences (i.e. polish) are very important to me.
robotnikman 3y ago
Works very well for me too. Also, I see a lot of people here saying lemmy and other alternatives to reddit will not attract as many users as reddit. But maybe that is a good thing? Being a popular hangout on the internet seems to be a curse more than anything from my observation over the last decade. If an alternative reaches an amount of active users similar to the early years of Reddit, I would call that a win.
- accrual 3y ago
  Definitely! It has a kind of nice close-knit feel right now that I appreciate. I'm bumping into a few of the same users in different areas. There was also a funny comment I read early on after joining, something like "only true Redditors aren't on Reddit" in reference to the earlier Redditors leaving in hopes of finding what was lost as it became more mainstream.

joshuawitzer 3y ago

Thanks for your recommendation.

dragontamer 3y ago

> so posts from those platforms seamlessly appear in the feeds But not vice versa. Lemmy users cannot visit kbin.social magazines with capital-letters. Lemmy doesn't understand that capital-letters could exist in a name.

gpm 3y ago
Kbin is planning on fixing the case-sensitive-ness: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/81 https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/81 Kbin in general is super new software, there's a lot of nits that need fixing like this. It works surprisingly well considering how young it is.
- dragontamer 3y ago
  Thanks for this. I'm new to the Fediverse, so I don't know if kbin was planning on fixing their processing or if Lemmy was planning to switch to case-sensitive. I guess devs are deciding upon case-insensitive largely across the Fediverse?
  - gpm 3y ago
    > I guess devs are deciding upon case-insensitive largely across the Fediverse? That's my understanding, but I'm just a spectator.

tills13 3y ago

The whole reason (well, the majority of the reason) is that my favorite reddit phone app is going away at the end of the month. This is kind of a deal-breaker for me as bespoke app experiences (i.e. polish) are very important to me.

robotnikman 3y ago

Works very well for me too. Also, I see a lot of people here saying lemmy and other alternatives to reddit will not attract as many users as reddit. But maybe that is a good thing? Being a popular hangout on the internet seems to be a curse more than anything from my observation over the last decade. If an alternative reaches an amount of active users similar to the early years of Reddit, I would call that a win.

accrual 3y ago
Definitely! It has a kind of nice close-knit feel right now that I appreciate. I'm bumping into a few of the same users in different areas. There was also a funny comment I read early on after joining, something like "only true Redditors aren't on Reddit" in reference to the earlier Redditors leaving in hopes of finding what was lost as it became more mainstream.