extratoneLemmy and Kbin: The Best Reddit Alternatives?
Love Reddit but tired of what's happening to it? We check out Lemmy and Kbin, two open-source fediverse alternatives that are growing fast. #fediverse
Stopkilling0Every article or thread I read comparing kbin vs lemmy, kbin always comes out on top and yet lemmy has way more users and I just can't figure out why.
Baron Von JWhen the explosion of new users happened, kbin.social was the only instance and it wasn’t ready for the growth. It was completely offline or disfuncional frequently and Ernest had to both disable federation and put up a CloudFlare captcha to slow down traffic to the site. So after all that lemmy.ml had to also temporarily block kbin.social because bei g unresponsive to lemmy.ml trying to federate was slowing down lemmy.ml. so people who were looking at both went to Lemmy.
sabCloudflare protection also completely messed up federation, so in those days kbin was more or less completely cut off from Lemmy. And in those days there weren't really alternative kbin instances to choose from.
Kbin is still much more bleeding edge - kbin had just recently reached a level of basic usability at the time of the first wave of Reddit migrants, whereas Lemmy has been around for years with a development team of twice the size (two people).
Where kbin is lagging behind the most is probably in how easy it is to set up an instance, and administer it once it's out there. This means that niche sites are more likely to use Lemmy at the moment. Then there's also, of course, still no API/apps (could change any moment now).
That said, I am incredibly happy with kbin myself, and I also don't mind at all most of the people out there being on Lemmy. As far as I'm concerned having two strong platforms from the beginning makes the Threadiverse stronger.
RheingoldRivercould change any moment now
Indeed, Artemis public beta is now live as of 4 minutes ago!
I don't think it's been announced outside of the discord yet even haha but the links are:
- iOS: https://testflight.apple.com/join/DmJTH3he
- Andr: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=camp.artemis.app
(public beta requires you to sign up for https://artemis.camp and access the app via this instance, as soon as the kbin API is fully released as opposed to dev branch only, all instances will be supported!)
