Moving to: m/AskMbin!

Because I'm dumb.

Not that "signing up for kbin was a dumb move"; more that I was too dumb to understand the front page full of technical bullshit on the Lemmy landing site.

I started to skim it and went "Wow, ok, this is complicated, I guess I'll have to figure it out later; I only have about thirty minutes right now."

Then I clicked on a link to kbin, and there was content, and a login button, and a sign up button, and a quick registration page, and bang! I'm on kbin commenting on cat pictures. The only adjustment I had to make to my browsing habits was using my middle mouse button to click links instead of my left button (to open them in a new tab, which I had set Reddit to do by default).

Beehaw was the same way, so I signed up there, too, but their web UI doesn't work great for me. Sorting by "local" and "active" only shows me stuff from yesterday through last week, but sorting by anything else floods my feed with a dozen new topics every five seconds that automatically scroll everything down. I don't even have enough time to read a longish thread title before it's rudely shoved off the bottom of my screen in favor of six posts from some random citrus-appreciation instance, or something. So I'm going to check back there in a month or two, because I like the on screen layout better.