The branding for kbin is perfect for capturing the reddit migrators. The biggest friction point for the Fediverse is choosing an instance. If I want to join Lemmy, googling Lemmy takes me to a landing page with no join button, telling me to go to these other sites. Some of these sites even actively discourage signups, creating so many places for a new user to churn.
Also, see the cases where the admins of a few Lemmy instances act badly: now the brand of every other instance is tarnished.
If I want to join kbin, I go to kbin, and I signup. How easy is that? I personally think this is why kbin has been getting a lot of traffic compared to Lemmy instances, and this benefit is lost when other kbin instances begin popping up.
In my opinion, it makes way more sense to market the instances individually rather than as a whole. Federation can be discovered at the users own pace, instead of being the main draw which will always be the content hosted. This does add a bit of a prisoner’s dilemma, but I do think it would end up benefitting the ecosystem as a whole.
I agree. There is a lot to like here. The theming, intuitiveness, as well as it looks good on desktop and mobile and has a PWA. It also seems to be stabilizing. I hope this keeps up!
Indeed - the UX here is absolutely fantastic.
My only concern is so far I haven’t seen quite the same level of activity that I’ve seen on Lemmy, but I’m optimistic this could change, especially if some existing subreddits decide to start pointing users here…
Right now I’m exploring this and lemmy.world, my worry is that kbin seems disconnected from the other lemmy instances, whether that’s by design or not, I dunno.
I agree though, kbin has a FANTASTIC interface compared to most of the lemmy instances I’ve seen. If I had to pick one, I’d stick with kbin for now, but I hope this inspires good UI/UX development in lemmy where all the buzz is. The markdown implementation here is quite different from what I’m used to, but it’s nice that it’s there.
The only thing missing is a proper app. I haven’t tried the PWA yet, but that in itself is promising.
Hey, https://kbin.social/m/thegoldengator/t/14186/How-the-m-appears-from-Lemmy-All-posts-are-not#entry-comment-58904
@sgtlighttree @softhat
Thanks for the reassurance, but please take rests too! If there was a way to donate then please feel free to post it somewhere, I can see a lot of potential here.