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Lemmy and Kbin: The Best Reddit Alternatives? (www.pcmag.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I personally don't like KBin's UI. It's an immediate turn-off for me. Text too small, vote buttons look weird. Also I just loaded the homepage and the top posts are "πŸ€”πŸ€”πŸ€”", "ichπŸš—iel", "Every time I leave or enter the house", and a generic meme. No thanks, there's enough trash like that already on the Reddit homepage.

I'm building my own Reddit alternative zsync.xyz. I'll open source it in a week. Hoping to federate it one day and make it into a pcmag article. I def respect the Lemmy dev(s). To an outsider a Reddit clone might look trivial to build but it's actually a ton of work, and of course an enormous chicken & egg problem to overcome to actually get any users.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

What's unique or special about yours, as opposed to lemmy or kbin or any of the others? Especially if your issue with kbin is just the ui, it seems like making an app for an already established user base might be a better use of your time. If you're just doing it for kicks that's fine I'm not trying to bash that, I'm just curious. If you're planning to federate eventually does it do anything differently to lemmy? What's the use case?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I agree with low effort posts here on lemmy and kbin. But it's mostly a end-user problem, not the software

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I guess federation is a way to get an egg.