I had tried mastodon a while back and didn’t like it. It felt like it was trying to copy twitter, but didn’t really have any of the good points, and the “many small instances” thing put me off entirely from it.
Once kbin showed up I gave it another chance and actually really like kbin. It’s very similar to how reddit works so it isn’t jarring at all to use, and for the first few days federation wasn’t on so it was possible to really get acclimated to it as it’s own thing. It’s easy enough to just think of it as “using kbin” and not really stress about the federating aspect.
The community on mastodon is pretty progressive which is kinda a culture clash for me, and a lot of the content I’m after really isn’t on there. Whereas most kbinauts and lemmy users seem to have come from reddit, so a lot of the content/culture was brought over as well, making it an easier transition.
I had tried mastodon a while back and didn’t like it. It felt like it was trying to copy twitter, but didn’t really have any of the good points, and the “many small instances” thing put me off entirely from it.
Once kbin showed up I gave it another chance and actually really like kbin. It’s very similar to how reddit works so it isn’t jarring at all to use, and for the first few days federation wasn’t on so it was possible to really get acclimated to it as it’s own thing. It’s easy enough to just think of it as “using kbin” and not really stress about the federating aspect.
The community on mastodon is pretty progressive which is kinda a culture clash for me, and a lot of the content I’m after really isn’t on there. Whereas most kbinauts and lemmy users seem to have come from reddit, so a lot of the content/culture was brought over as well, making it an easier transition.