I’m a bit confused with my options here. I am looking at Reddit alternatives and see a lot of people flocking to lemmy but it seemed like kbin was the more centrist option?
Apparently lemmy was set up by a tankie and has some CCP propaganda and other problematic background?
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
I have accounts with both and definitely seems like kbin is struggling compared to lemmy but that could just be because lemmy is better established? What are people’s thoughts?
if the kbin server you are using is struggling, you can always choose another instancs, such as https://fedia.io . See https://fedidb.org/software/Kbin for a complete list. If you are not happy with the moderators of your lemmy instance, you can use a different Lemmy instance too: https://join-lemmy.org/instances
fedia’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are blank, so who knows who runs it and what their political views are? I’m testing it but I’m not supercomfortable recommending it yet.
Fedio.io is run by Jerry Bell. Not sure his political views, but he will run an excellent server. He runs the infosec.exchange Mastodon instance. He is the VP and CISO of IBM Public Cloud.
Here is his post announcing it. https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/110523070726279385
Thanks. I’ve asked him about the blanks.
Lemmy the software does not come with any propaganda. Some Lemmy instances or communities may be moderated in a specific way or endorse specific political views, but that’s up to each instance to decide for themselves.
Apparently they had a falling out or something because there a similar post by the tankie including screenshots and proof that the dude that posted the above is lying.
I don’t wanna start my experience by listening to someone else to be honest so I will decide for myself what is better for me.
And up until now lemmy has had a better experience for me than kbin social. Additionally I think kbin isn’t open to signups anymore from what people are saying.
I have been using lemmy for more than a week now and have also talked with the dev/admin both regarding communities and on GitHub for a pull request I did. The experience was good and for now I will be staying here.
I also don’t like the look of kbin and the ux for now.
I have an account in mastodon, kbin, tildes, raddle and lemmy and out of all, lemmy seemed to work the best for me, for now.
