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r/ModCoord has officially recommended migration off of Reddit. (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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kbin.social was the first thing on the recommended list.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Awesome, more users is good!

Kbin is so nice and seems more stable than lemmy. I spent all of yesterday on a lemmy account with a lot of loading errors and all of today on kbin and not a single error! Well done to the devs.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

You’ll get a couple but they’re usually super temporary 503s so it just feels like the Reddit of yore

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's excellent to hear! I've been following the progress of KBin closely. The big thing I'm waiting for is mobile apps

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

On the plus side, kbin now has a PWA, and it works pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@[email protected] is working on a client that is (currently) called Kmoon.

It might be renamed soon, but I've signed up for the beta and am currently waiting for an Android build 👀

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the name has been all but finalized to be Artemis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i’d LOVE to switch from using Apollo for reddit to Artemis for lemmy tbh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jerboa for Lemmy works fine for me :)

[–] FlagonOfMe 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only for certain definitions of "fine". 😄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh really! What issues are you experiencing?

[–] FlagonOfMe 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd have to think about it. There have been a lot of little issues.

  1. After I reply to a comment, the comments scroll to some random position, and I can't be sure my comment went through until I figure out where I was.
  2. I've had a comment get lost. I wrote it, submitted it, and that was it. Nothing happened. No way to recover what I'd written.
  3. In exactly one thread, I couldn't post a comment reply due to "language_not_allowed" despite making several other comments in threads on the same instance (sh.itjust.works). I made a post about it where you can read more. Might not be a jerboa issue, but the error message was certainly not helpful.
  4. No way to read replies to my comments after I mark them as read. Again, this might be a Lemmy thing. I'm used to Reddit where you can always read inbox messages even after they are marked read.
  5. Doesn't support a lot of Lemmy markdown, including spoilers.
  6. I'm still a noob, but I find it hard to figure out what instance a person is from and also sometimes what instance a community is from. I click the little "info" icons and then they don't seem to show me this.
  7. No way to click on an image embedded in a post in order to zoom in. More than once I've had to copy the permalink to a post so could open it in my browser just to be able to see the images.
  8. After replying to comments in my Inbox, they disappear, but the Inbox button still shows me having unread messages. This doesn't change unless I press the "Mark All as Read" button.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Yeah, I experience this too regularly!
  2. I think that's happened to me once so far.
  3. I read about someone else having that issue, apparently it's being patched in the next lemmy update.
  4. You can change the three bars top right to "all" as opposed to unread, they should all appear again then
  5. I'm not too hot on such things ha
  6. I've not had that issue, but I do find myself clicking on the op to see, not sure if that's the same thing you're trying to find
  7. Images are a bit broken, again I think it's because Lemmy is still teething, I would be surprised if the default answer continues to be"post to an external site and link here", it seems a bit kludgy
  8. That's just annoying though I've yet to experience that yet, I have to click the 'read' icon which is hidden and you have to long-hold the timestamp in the inbox for it to show

Actually there are a few things aren't there. I would hope the app will mature over time, now the demand is much higher.

[–] FlagonOfMe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the "All messages" tip! Being a sort icon, I didn't expect it to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Most welcome :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Part of it is that Lemmy instances are dealing with a major influx of new users and it's causing server issues. I decided to avoid that and the defederation drama and fired up my own instance. I'm kind of curious if I could use another server to run a kbin instance and just have it be kbin.captainapathetic.cfd instead, I don't see why it wouldn't work, considering doing it for Mastodon too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah understandable, I‘ll give the lemmy account another try when this maybe calms down a bit. Which, considering the big Reddit App death is happening on the 30th may be a while lol.

Own instance is a cool idea to deal with that as well, since for one user even a raspberry pi should be enough or so I have heard, maybe I‘ll try it if I get bored.

[–] can 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's possible the lemmy instance you're on is jus having more server issues too. sh.itjust.works has been pretty reliable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yea really either kbin or lemmy is fine, to me it seems more about what works best for you, hell some people are fine with using mastodon and just dealing with the jank of reading threaded posts there because they only want to follow a few communities. Also yea I'm using a cheap VPS with 2 vCPUs, 2GB RAM, and 40GB SSD storage and it is just fine for a single user instance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure I read that kbin.social is running on 2 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM so you should be extremely fine with that as a single user!