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When I was feeling overwhelmed by all the cumbersome clicks that come with getting used to lemmy, I found kbin to be a better way to just explore what's across all instances.
https://kbin.social/
It's a different project but can access and interact with everything on lemmy.
It's so cool to be able to use different front-ends to access the same content. I personally prefer Lemmy's software, but it's refreshing to have a choice in how we interact with a content platform.
It's the social media equivalent of KDE and Gnome.
With KDE being kbin in this analogy because they both have the letter k in it. Logic.
I love that! Honestly the whole reddit fiasco has been a huge push for me to switch to open-source platforms. I'm now on Invidious instead of Youtube, here instead of reddit, and I downloaded the LibRedirect addon to redirect me to open-source alternatives whenever available.
I already run Linux Mint on my laptop, so right now the last big holdout is my desktop running the reviOS version of Windows 11, and my phone which I need to get around to rooting.
That's great! I think we're at a stage of the Internet where companies are grasping ever tighter. But as Princess Leia said, "The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
I've ended up liking the lemmy interface more, but it was definitely way too overwhelming at first. Kbin helped me understand how content is spread out across instances in a much more obvious way.
That then let me know which communities I should sub to in order to make my lemmy account more what I wanted and expected.
I'm definitely a nerd who loves to tinker with tech-y stuff so I just spent an entire day playing around, but yeah kbin has a bunch of potential in regards to making onboarding smoother.
Is there a mobile app for kbin.social? I'd like to use that too since that's where I browse on my PC, but Jerboa doesn't seem to support it.
I'm not sure! I stopped using kbin after getting more comfortable with how lemmy works.
I think I remember something about a very early build for an app, but I'm not sure. You should make a thread and ask!
This is the way.
Hello from kbin (too) 👋
Is there an app?