Lemmy VS kbin

Compare Lemmy vs kbin and see what are their differences.

kbin

A reddit-like content aggregator and micro-blogging platform for the fediverse. (by ernestwisniewski)
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Lemmy kbin
1,603 74
12,803 753
1.2% -
9.8 9.8
3 days ago 4 months ago
Rust PHP
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Lemmy

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lemmy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-24.

kbin

Posts with mentions or reviews of kbin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-31.
  • Ask HN: Which Lemmy communities and instances are you visiting daily?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2023
    One will notice the regrettable duplication in that list, and it's (AFAIK) a massive unsolved problem in the Fediverse. My mental model is that Lemmy is exactly like signing up to mailing lists but where one can also upvote and downvote posts (err, some instances don't allow downvotes, so there's that). That means that folks who want the most coverage for their submission will post it to every one of the duplicated mailing lists, which results in their own message-id along with their own threaded replies and upvote/downvote scores. Some folks have proposed using the link-url and subject for deduplicating them, but I believe it's just a proposal from the client side and the servers will do no such thing (although running your own instance hypothetically would allow for such customization)

    There's also https://kbin.pub which is its own ActivityPub implementation and behaves a little different from Lemmy, I'm sure with good and bad parts. IIRC there's some federation drama between Kbin and some Lemmy instances, and (AFAIK) Kbin does not have any mobile apps whereas there are currently several which speak the Lemmy API. I'd credit it with "first mover effect" more than one being objectively better than the other

    I do hope Lemmy catches on and siphons users off of Reddit because the rug-pull from Reddit was a trust-breaking middle finger, IMHO. I wished the same thing for Mastodon, too, but I think the inertia is just too strong with X

  • Alternative to Reddit: @[email protected]
    1 project | /r/jankEDH | 9 Jul 2023
    The Fediverse - which kbin is a part of - is a network of interconnected servers used for publishing content, much like Reddit. The benefit is that the Fediverse is decentralised and not controlled by any company or authority, cannot be monetised in the same sense as Reddit, and the code is free. Different servers - also called instances - are independent but communicate with each other.
  • Is there a way to take a image / snapshot of my present installs / config?
    1 project | /r/SteamDeck | 3 Jul 2023
    There is pretty big one on kbin and iirc there is one on lemmy as well
  • Steamdeck at lemmy
    1 project | /r/SteamDeck | 1 Jul 2023
    There is pretty big one at kbin, specifically on the kbin.social instance
  • Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jun 2023
  • RIP Nitter
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jun 2023
  • Lemmy.ml's admin is pro chinese government and actively censors comments that are critical. (Reposting this for awareness)
    4 projects | /r/RedditAlternatives | 27 Jun 2023
    Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy has definite technical advantages vs https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin -- use of PHP is a bit of a red flag. I'm going to try a small ARM64 instance so explicitly supporting that is nice.
  • A Reddit transcription community will shut down over a 'lack of trust' in the platform
    5 projects | /r/technology | 25 Jun 2023
    Lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org) and Kbin (https://kbin.pub) - those are like reddit, but federated (means there are multiple websites and are connected to each other so you can access "subreddits" of each of them, it's similar idea how e-mail works, you don't need to be on gmail to send e-mail to friend on gmail). The Kbin is distinct from lemmy, but it looks like you can access lemmy communities from kbin and vice versa. Also this might be useful https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
  • Des équipes entières voient leur droit de modération retiré sur des subs passés en nsfw
    1 project | /r/france | 21 Jun 2023
    Sinon kbin (qu'il faut que je test).
  • accessible solution for lemmy?
    6 projects | /r/Blind | 20 Jun 2023
    You can use kbin instead, if the political views of Lemmy's developers makes you feel uneasy.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Lemmy and kbin you can also consider the following projects:

Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

jerboa - A native android app for Lemmy

tildes - GitHub mirror of the Tildes source - official location is https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/

Reddit-Enhancement-Suite - Reddit Enhancement Suite

awesome-lemmy-instances - Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

Reddit

Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

Mlem - The Lemmy client [Moved to: https://github.com/mormaer/Mlem]

instances - Mastodon instances list

shreddit - Delete your Reddit data.