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Showerthoughts

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I like these federated services being kinda "rough around the edges" (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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In part because it reminds me a bit of the old internet, with stuff being spread around everywhere.

Being "harder"* to understand than reddit, twitter or other big companies' services is also a good thing, because people should remember that they have a brain and they should use it.

  • "harder" because not everyone understands the fediverse right away, since usability is extremely similar

PS: ^superscript doesn't work with phrases? at least not on preview^

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[–] Xepher@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's definitely forced me to learn a lot within the past few days. I guess I should thank reddit, because if they hadn't forced the 3rd party apps out of business I wouldn't have ever heard of Lemmy or kbin.

[–] Mojeezy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is kbin and how does it relate to Lemmy?

I am guessing kbin is an app for Lemmy like wefwef?

[–] Xepher@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's actually another Reddit clone similar to Lemmy, but much newer. You can use kbin to see posts from kbin, Lemmy, or Mastodon. There's a bit of a guide to it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/145npay/the_redditors_guide_to_how_kbin_works_your/

After using Lemmy and kbin a little bit over the past few days, Lemmy seems to be a bit more stable at this point so I'm sticking with it for now. But with more development time, kbin might ultimately be where I head to.

[–] Mojeezy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks! I will check it out kbin.

I have Mastedon but Lemmy is more enjoyable. I’m thinking it’s because mastedon is more like twitter and I never got into twitter to begin with.

[–] Moohamin12@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Kbin is a mix of both.

The UI is built like lemmy and has a micro blog which is more twitter-esque.

[–] rookie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You can subscribe to kbin "magazines" just like communities from other federated lemmy instances too, so you can view them all through lemmy.world or whichever instance you're on

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

If reddit hadn’t banned me on the most ridiculous of charges, I wouldn’t have learned of this place.

Over the course of a decade reddit became less and less satisfying, yet I still grieved when I got banned. Over twelve years I accumulated a lot of cool stuff I’d written and I had the evidence of it touching thousands of people. That hurt to lose.

But then I found Lemmy, and it’s like being back in early reddit.