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Vibe check: What are your impressions and experiences of Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and Beehaw? (kbin.run)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by NaClKnight@kbin.run to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Exactly what the title says.

What has your experience been on any of those platforms? Which captures more of your time? Why?

I'm relatively new here but I've read a little on the reddit-like platforms. I (mostly) understand what's a fork of what or what some of the technical differences are, but I'm curious about the vibes and communities.

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Beehaw isn’t exactly a separate platform yet— it’s still Lemmy, but they’re starting to sequester themselves and will soon spin off. Until then, they’re just a somewhat isolated Lemmy instance that’s focused on being a generally-positive safe-space. I think it’s nice, but there’s a lot of more frank and sometimes not-so-nice discussions that obviously can’t happen there.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Beehaw‘s active users nosedived after they defederated and never really recovered. There’s less than 500 total users now. But they’re all very active.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm still getting activities from Beehaw on my instance, and seemingly I can still interact with them too.

Did they stop accepting new instances or something? Because it definitely still works fine for me.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I do, too. But they did defederate from a bunch of instances, including IIRC lemm.ml and lemmy.world, among others (I’m on lemm.ee, so I’m still federated with them).

But they didn’t upgrade past 0.18.5, don’t plan to, and are looking to migrate to another platform… eventually. I haven’t kept up on the latest over there.

Best of luck to them. They seem nice.

[–] NaClKnight@kbin.run 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah! I remember reading that Beehaw had defederated from a lot of servers; the people who talk about it genuinely have strong feelings one way or the other. It sounds like a planned housing community or gated community but online, and that generates some very polarizing opinions.

It's also the one I have the least interest in exploring at the moment.

Edit: Tied with Hexbear