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Why did you choose your instance? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by minorsecond@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm currently struggling to find my home. I have an account here at lemmy.ml, where most of my posts are, and one at kbin.

Why do you think your instance is the place to be?

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[–] minorsecond@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The last point you mentioned is one of my biggest concerns.

[–] AlternativeEmphasis@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As it's open source I wouldn't look down on people using Lemmy, but if you are going to use it I'd recommend staying away from the main server/lemmy.ml.

I chose Kbin myself because it's way more like old reddit and I wasn't jazzed with the devs of Lemmy.

[–] minorsecond@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, I think I'm going to switch over to kbin full time. It'll suck not having an app, but the mobile web UI isn't too bad.

[–] SnowboardBum@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeh, it has a PWA (progressive web app) that you can "install" from your mobile browsers. It works fine for now.

[–] Amongog@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Get Firefox Nightly.
Create a custom addon/extensions collection on Mozilla with Tamper Monkey, Stylus and whatever else you'd like.
Enable developer mode on Firefox and add your custom addon collection and inatall them.
Go to /m/kbinStyles and install the various userstyles and userscripts.
And finally, install the PWA.

That way you'll have a much better experience with kbin on mobile. It doesn't even show the browser frame. It's like a native app.

[–] randomperson@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

PWA is pretty okay but I am sure we will get awesome native apps in the future. I hope devs of Apollo, Sync and others will join kbin as it would be mutually beneficial as I am sure people would gladly pay for their awesome apps and at the same time it would attract more users ti kbin.

[–] TychoOrdo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This. Basically googled what the difference was and the article I found said the lemmy creator simps for the USSR. And I have about as much as interest in a platform like that as I have into on created by Nazis.