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What's the benefit of using Kbin over Lemmy? (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I see a very small minority of people using Kbin, but I don't understand why.

Is this just a coincidence and did some people choose Kbin over Lemmy or is there a good reason to use Kbin?

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[–] cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me 52 points 1 year ago (32 children)

Personal taste, but I think the user interface is far superior to Lemmy. Even with scripts to help Lemmy, kbin still looks better.
Politics. Some might have issues with the political positions of the Lemmy devs, no matter if they influence the software or not
It doesn’t matter that much. They are both federating with each other, you can subscribe to magazines from Lemmy, and to communities from kbin.

[–] Anoril@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is there good android apps fir kbin?

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The REST API is still in development. Once that gets released I'm sure app devs will spring up and build something fancy. I think Artemis is already working on an integration but that's with html scraping.

There's been a heap of work on the mobile UI/UX and I'm constantly pushing to get more mobile centric features into prod.

[–] hariette@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Official API is almost getting there. I'm alredy updating the app to start using it with my test instance that has it deployed. Just to get ahead of it.

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Sweet. Can't wait to see how it all turns out! 🦙

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