Made the switch 4 years ago. No regrets.

First, thank you for the detailed response.

Second, I think you finally convinced me to delete my FB. I will link to this comment wherever possible to show people what a terrible company Meta is.

Can you tell us more about what they are like?

This is an excellent explanation of hashing, and the interactive animations make it very enjoyable and easy to follow.

Trust me, the shit show is glorious. I even instinctively upvoted a couple of medieval memes but quickly realized what I was doing and closed the tab.

Oh definitely. I’ve been on a continuous Lemmy/kbin binge since Friday. This place is way more enjoyable than reddit because:

• Your voice matters. People actually upvote and reply!
• There is no karma! One less thing to obsess over (though you can see how many posts/comments a user has made).
• The content is much more interesting and reminiscent of the early days of Reddit.
• Maybe I’m too nerdy but I like how clean the site is.
• There is absolutely zero commercial interest across the entire lemmyverse and it’s awesome. You can talk to actual people and have fun!
• It feels magical that there are all these different Lemmy and kbin servers and you can see people from 10 instances talking to each other in the same thread.

I’m sure it’s a nice client but I don’t understand why so many GUI projects have no screenshots in their READMEs. It would be great if I could immediately see if I like it without installing it.

EDIT: thanks for adding the screenshot to your post! It looks awesome!

This was one of my favorite subreddits. Thanks for creating it!

Subscribed.

FYI programming.dev also has a Programmer Humor community

Cool, thank you! I’ll check out AskKbin.

Could you please recommend some good kbin magazines here too? I think this thread has a lot of interested users.

It already exists but Lemmy converts it into a regular link (I don’t know what kbin does):

Syntax: !community@instance.tld

What Lemmy does: [Community](https://instance.tld/c/community)

Correct Lemmy link: [Community](/c/community@instance.tld)

Correct kbin link: [Community](/m/community@instance.tld)

The first problem is that it should be a relative URL so visitors from any instance are sent to the community on their own instance.

The second one is that the conversion should be done at rendering time instead of in the editor, so the client (Lemmy or kbin) can format the link according to its own route pattern.

Lemmy also has a mechanism to do it, but the icon is different, it’s two squares instead of a forking arrow.

Well, there’s this place:

• link for kbinauts: New Communities
• link for lemmings: New Communities

My new community got quite a few subscribers from there. Just make sure to post relative links using both the Lemmy and kbin routes (/c/ and /m/).

EDIT: oh, I almost forgot, there actually is a site for community discovery: Lemmy Browser. I don’t think it currently lists kbin communities but we could ask them to (or if it’s open source, someone could implement it).

This is exactly what it felt like. It is amazing to see how well federation works - look at all the usernames from different instances! I enjoy the Cambrian explosion of new communities. It feels like conquering and taming a wild frontier.

Thank you! I added the kbin link to my post (but I made it relative so it works on any instance).

This is pretty awesome and it shows how far .NET has come in recent years.

Which is why it was kind of an asshole move by the beehaw admins to defederate. They caused endless confusion for the average user.

Oh wow someone finally explained it! Thanks!

Honestly lemmy/kbin already has enough users to be an interesting place. I wasted more time here in the last few days than I used to on reddit.