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  • ADHDefy@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    For me:

    1. Privacy reasons. When a comment is “deleted” on Lemmy, the comment is actually only hidden to all except instance administrators. The comment remains on the post and continues to display the poster’s username. kbin is also not a beacon of privacy, but it at least removes deleted comments from threads. This is also why I try to interact more on kbin magazines than Lemmy communities.

    2. kbin has a sweet community search tool that not only searches kbin magazines, but also Lemmy communities and even Mastodon groups. This means you can easily find communities all across the #Fediverse for any of your interests.

    3. kbin has a much nicer/more modern UI. It’s got some quirks, but it’s easier to read and navigate than Lemmy by default.

    4. Customization options! Lemmy has themes, which is cool, but kbin has themes and lots of fun toggles to change your experience.

    5. Last but certainly not least, Lemmy devs have a pretty shit stance on human rights. (See here: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379). There are communities like #Beehaw, which are super friendly and non-problematic instances separate from the Lemmy devs, but it’s worth noting that instances like Lemmy’s flagship instance and Lemmygrad are run by folks with some grossly misguided views.

      • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        I find it extraordinarily difficult to identify with boycotting a product for its creator’s beliefs, considering the majority of consumer products are directly produced through unethical practices. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, after all. It’s about as ridiculous as boycotting Mars because they de-sexified their M&M mascott.

        It’s just an untenable standard, and from what I can see there’s nothing intrinsic about the way lemmy functions that can be tied to those beliefs/impacts your own ability to distance from them. I think this is just noise.

        • NotAPenguin@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          When I have a choice between a platform developed by tankies and one that’s not… I’m gonna choose the one that’s not.

          • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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            1 year ago

            But doesn’t kbin federate with lemmy? Are you OK with that relationship? Seems a little arbitrary to me. If you have an open-source standard for a distributed network, you’re not going to avoid associating with someone with unsavory views. The point is that you can control who you federate with anyway.

            It’s a hill to die on, I guess.

  • Stoneykins@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Honestly atm I’m using lemmy for mobile and kbin for desktop. I might switch to kbin more permanently if the app gets finished and is a better user interface. I’m mostly on lemmy simply because I’m mostly on mobile.

    The personal views of the lemmy devs are bad, but by the nature of FOSS idk if that should matter. I also know nothing about the veiws of the dev of kbin, and I don’t think I wanna know tbh. I’m not sure how I should behave in regards to the problematic political views of the people making things I like. Lemmy could always be forked and worked on by different people but that would probably only really happen if the current devs ruined it or abandoned it.

  • iNeedScissors67@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    For me it simply came down to the fact that I prefer the layout, and it’s also nice knowing I can block whole domains (looking at you, furry spammers). It also integrates with Mastodon if that’s your thing (it’s not my thing), and I have high hopes for the ability of Ernest (the founder and only dev, to my knowledge) to usher it in a good and healthy direction. I can see all content from Lemmy and interact with it though, so it really just comes down to personal preference.

    • Lucien@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Good God. On beehaw I had to block every furry community separately. Talk about annoying.

      • iNeedScissors67@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Oh God. About 6 years ago I was in Pittsburgh for work. I did get to see a Bruins/Penguins playoff game so that was nice, but I was at a Bridge conference (for people who design and build bridges, not the card game). Several hotel employees and taxi drivers warned me that a furry conference was coming the day our bridge conference ended. That was the first time I heard the term “furries”. Then they descended upon the city while I was still there. To this day it’s still the most intense culture shock I’ve ever had.