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It's time to admit Lemmy has won the "the biggest reddit alternative" award, why it's time for all of us to consider supporting it (here's why) + reopening r/LemmyMigration (old.reddit.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/reddit@lemmy.world
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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (6 children)

there were other options?

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Hello from /Kbin

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I love kbin but being a one man show and lacking API it was never really going to be the replacement. I am, however, glad to have it as one of a handful of smaller alternatives and a sort of cousin to Lemmy.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If it doesn't have an API, how do I still see posts from it in my feed? Do you mean it integrates with the fediverse, but only has a web interface for now (ie. no apps)?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the latter. There is an API, but I think it was only released in the last month or so. I'm not sure to what extent it's complete.

    A kbin instance can be downloaded as a PWA, and it works decent.

    As for third party apps there's Lunar, iOS only. Haven't tried it.

    There was also Artemis. It had the best UI/UX design I've ever seen. Unfortunately the dev appears to have vanished.

    Before the API, I think they were web scraping.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's definitely not true, they had an API back in September when I looked into adding support for it

    They didn't have an sdk, but the API most certainly has been around for a while

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're correct. I misunderstood. The API has indeed been around for a while.

    The main instance (kbin.social) only started using it around a month ago: https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog/t/642285/kbin-RTR-19-Summary-of-current-work-and-plans-for-the

    Apologies for the confusion.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Ah... That I didn't know, I read through the documentation to see how hard it would be, but I never tried to use it

    If that's true, I see your point... That's not nearly as bad as not having an API, but it's still a deal breaker

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    When I was leaving Reddit I heard of Kbin (which I do have an account in and still check all the time), raddle.me, Tildes, squabbles, and I think another. So many!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    One that I don't hear about is raddle.me, a centralized alternative.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    They fail on their promise of curbing the mods problem with a transparent modlog and active admins. It's the same bunch of authoritarian kids as reddit and the power dynamics are unchanged, they make friends with each other and with the administrators and it's exactly as hard to get one removed as it ever was on major lemmy instances

    I prefer the federation where if a mod/admin's bad you can just create a community with the same name on a different instance

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