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Vibe check: What are your impressions and experiences of Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and Beehaw? (kbin.run)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Exactly what the title says.

What has your experience been on any of those platforms? Which captures more of your time? Why?

I'm relatively new here but I've read a little on the reddit-like platforms. I (mostly) understand what's a fork of what or what some of the technical differences are, but I'm curious about the vibes and communities.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Lemmy: Flawed but fun; doesn't do enough about fascists on the platform but at least they're really good about free speech.

Kbin: Boring. They don't have downvotes and it's just a stream of information with little context. Its users kind of suck.

Beehaw: Fascist, in a liberal way. They moderate like totalitarians and are so uber sensitive to any prospective outside their own.

Mastodon: Misses the mark. They tried to replace twitter and succeeded; not learning from any of its mistakes. As a result it's all of the liberalism of twitter and none of the communists. Also little known fact is that Truth Social is a fork of mastodon, so good job on that one 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks!

That Mastodon opinion is fascinating to me. Mastodon is the one i know he best by far, which is why i left it out.

Mastodon might function similarly, but as a user the community feels nothing like Twitter, for better and for worse, and its users and devs seem proud of that.

I also notice a strong communist/anarchist presence.

IMO Mastodon's flaws are from trying to hard to not be Twitter the 2nd, not from being too similar to Twitter.