AccidentalRenaissance has no active moderators due to Reddit's unprecedented API changes, and has thus been privated to prevent vandalism.

Resignation letters:

Openminded_Skeptic - https://imgur.com/a/WwzQcac

VoltasPistol - https://imgur.com/a/lnHSM4n

We welcome you to join us in our new homes:

https://kbin.social/m/AccidentalRenaissance

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/accidentalrenaissance

Thank you for all your support!

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[–] 27 points 3 years ago (21 children)

It’s clear that people prefer Lemmy over Kbin, for some reason. Over 2k users in the Lemmy community vs. only 900 on Kbin.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    for some reason

    I joined a bunch of instances (including kbin) with a bunch of different usernames, and have mostly stopped visiting kbin. The default browser interface isn't as good: no collapsing comments, unintuitive displays of what magazine/community you're on (thread links weirdly prioritize telling you which instance hosts the community rather than which of that instance's local communities it is), etc.

    This UI/UX stuff matters, I think. After all, a big part of the reddit migration was prompted by users being forced off of their preferred interface.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    it is quite difficult to use kbin to aay the least, as the user interface is more friendly here

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

    The UI for both is just reddit. And Kbin has a PWA that functions like a native app. The only issue I've found (on my phone at least), is some formatting issues with certain buttons.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    I hate the way they handle images. I was browsing kbin on my phone, and they show images 3 or 4 times as wide as tall. They put a tiny little thumbnail of the original image that fits in there, on a background of a blurred version of a strip of the image. It looks awful, and you can't even click on it to see the image. You click once and it takes you to the thread, and you need to click a second time to see the image. Then back a couple times to get back to where you were.

    tl/dr, kbin had me first, and I left because I didn't like the UI.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Kbin seems to have some trouble viewing content in lemmy, but lemmy seems to have no trouble viewing kbin content, something about federated server being incomplete. I don't know enough about federation to diagnose the problem or who is responsible, but lemmy account sees more stuff so that's where I went.

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

    I actually prefer kbin.(social). It hasn't had nearly as much downtime and errors and whatnot as I've experienced on lemmy. Which is remarkable since Lemmy has been around for a few years whereas kbin is fairly recent.

    Like, there are always growing pains, so I get it, and with all the influx of new users there can be issues, so not a big deal.

    I think Lemmy's more popular mostly because for whatever reason it's the catchall name for the fediverse right now. IDK if there's any like (very mild) astroturfing going on, or the name is just catchy, or what.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    It's the name that's catchy, and word of mouth when the Reddit drama happen, people weren't mentioning Kbin that much.

    Also Kbin sounded like a website for uploading pictures of programming code that you want to send to another programmer. It's a very utility sort of name, where Lemmy is a very cosmetic sort of name.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    If want an unprovoked opinion of a new join, I picked Lemmy because it was a simple word I could pronounce. I'm not saying kbin would be difficult to figure out, but having a simple name to pronounce is an easy "Welcome" sign to the newbies.

    I should probably check around kbin at some point and I might even like it better. I just found what worked for me and I'm hesitant to change anything right now.......okay you motivated me, I'll check it out this weekend.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    @meldrik Lemmy came first. It's got that going for it. Personally, I can't abide by the dev's politics, so I am team Kbin.

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