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@argv_minus_one I see. The more I look into it, the more I think Lemmy should still be considered beta software like kbin, TBH. Some important features are still missing and the optimization is lacking.
I do consider Lemmy to be beta software.
But it's currently the best option.
@ericjmorey You ever look at kbin? It already has the follow user functionality implemented so you can get content from the rest of the Fediverse.
My biggest concern with kbin is its in alpha, very little time in use to smooth things out, there's more likely to be major changes to its functionality, possibly breaking changes. I'm olso not too interested in following individuals outside of my Mastodon account.
@ericjmorey That sounds like the situation with Lemmy, but with less features.
I'm not sure I'm understanding. Lemmy is different in the way I described. What features (other than following individuals) are you talking about?
@ericjmorey What I'm suggesting is that
"My biggest concern with kbin is its in alpha, very little time in use to smooth things out, there's more likely to be major changes to its functionality, possibly breaking changes."
is also something that applies to Lemmy, so I'm not sure why you'd knock one platform for it but not the other.
And even if you're not particularly interested in following non-Lemmy users, others are and it would resolve an interop asymmetry that has formed due to lacking this functionality. Like, the only reason we can have this conversation in the first place is because Mastodon supports following Lemmy users and communities and allows me to interact with them, but it's not currently possible to follow non-Lemmy users on Lemmy, which makes the interop very one-sided and cuts you guys off from a large chunk of content (unless you make accounts on other platforms, but Fediverse platforms shouldn't require that just to subscribe to public content feeds, as the interop is one of the Fediverse's biggest selling points over silo'd corporate social media).
Time and scale of use of Lemmy is much greater, therefor more problems have been identified and fixed. It's possible that kbin devs are smarter of better or have been able to benefit from observing the experiences of Lemmy devs, but non of those are safe assumptions without specific knowledge.
It's also possible that the kbin design is simply a better one for any number of reasons. But we won't know that until is gets much more use by many more people. Lemmy has that "advantage" now, thus the safer bet is on Lemmy.
It seems like the Lemmy devs are not interested in creating the feature of following individuals. Unless someone forks the project to add it, anyone who wants that feature should give kbin a try. I'm not one of them.
Yep. It works 🥳 and has all the basic features you'd expect of a Reddit replacement 🥳 but will no doubt have the same growing pains as early Reddit did.
@argv_minus_one I still remember when Reddit was 503ing on the regular.
Wasn't that just last week?
I wasn't able to load threads or comments in RiF not a few hours ago.
I still get that stupid “You broke Reddit!” screen all the time.