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jkmooney, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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I suspect I will eventually go to just one account. If this "Memmy" app essentially connects the two, that could be a good solution. Do you use your same account for both? I created separate. Here I am on Lemmy
https://sh.itjust.works/u/JK_Mooney

bradboimler, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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For me it was the UI. Replies to comments on Lemmy are offset by, like, a single pixel. They're more obvious here. Yup, that was the biggest thing for me.

kglitch,

Yes, that was the first thing I noticed about Lemmy. Why even have nested comments if they're indented so little? Terrible!

Kbin is better but I still needed to make it even bigger before I was satisfied. And add collapsing comments.

readbeanicecream, in microblogs
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@Dreamer_joy I asked a similar question, today. Got a few pretty good answers. See https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/216273/A-crash-course-for-kbin-s-Microblog

readbeanicecream, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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Came for the UI. Stayed for the granular settings (including turning federation on and off) and the content just seemed higher quality (though that is very subjective)

numbscroll,
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Which UI?

ETA: asking since people will see this across the fediverse, and may not realize where you posted this

readbeanicecream,
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@numbscroll Good point. Kbin.

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Jaywarbs,

Just the mobile website works pretty well by itself. I’m using the Artemis beta now and I like it a lot too.

numbscroll,
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I can’t wait for Artemis!

dandan,
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Hi from Artemis 🫡

It's pretty great.

numbscroll,
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🥹

SamXavia,
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Fair enough, I seem to find it confusing as of the moment but I’ll give it a proper go to see if I prefer it in the end.

HidingCat,

How is it confusing? I've tried both and neither were hard to use, I purely picked Kbin for aesthetics.

jkmooney, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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I'm currently trying both out, still deciding.....

SamXavia,
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Same here, so far Lemmy seems to be the better option for me.

jkmooney,
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I'm kind of agreeing with you....but nothing bad against kbin though.

GeekFTW, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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Extra features like (apologies for the run-on sentence) being able to see upvotes and downvotes on threads and comments like lemmy admins can, better integration with mastodon, every community has both a 'reddit-like' section like Lemmy/Reddit, and a 'twitter-like' section which as I mentioned integrates with mastodon via hashtags, we can block users, communities, domains and (soon) instances, we have a wide variety of user-style scripts via Tampermonkey to customize the UI (the base UI is also, subjectively, better).

Given its all federated, you also don't lose anything by using kbin since you have access to lemmy too. Plus the dev is just the nicest, hard working son of a bitch lol.

Only drawback is we dont have an API yet, so for mobile you're stuck with the mobile site, but the mobile site is also really good so eh. Once the API is up tho there's a few apps which have already said they'll support kbin as well, so that's a matter of time.

readbeanicecream,
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GeekFTW,
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Ooooh perfect!

SamXavia,
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Thank you for breaking it down for me, seems like it’s really up to if someone wants better control over things than Lemmy currently does.

Ragnell, in Interesting Kbin magazines
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@fediverse and @tech are pretty busy and have interesting articles.

Girlparts, in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?

I attended a school board meeting recently and they asked everyone stand and recite before the meeting would begin. I got so many dirty looks for refusing.

To watch a room full of adults look and pledge to a flag was comical and disturbing

RheingoldRiver, in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?

Good for you OP! I stopped standing to pledge around when I was maybe 10 or 11, when I learned it was illegal to make standing for it mandatory & about how the words 'under God' were added later and the pledge violated separation of church and state. I come from a very liberal area and all my teachers were quite proud of me I think, especially my 6th-grade teacher. But a lot of my classmates didn't understand and I got bullied a lot for it. But I refused to do it. My mom was teaching public policy so....that probably influenced it a lot haha

albinanigans, in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?

Christ, I'm almost 40 and they're still doing that?!

SuburbanHaikuist, (edited ) in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?
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I went to elementary school in the late 60s and early 70s and yes, we said the pledge every day. I didn't think anything about it back then.

As a Boy Scout in the mid 70s, we said the pledge at every meeting. Again, I gave it no thought.

In the 90s, I was in a Ham Radio club and they said it before every meeting. I found it odd, but went along with them.

In the last few years, I joined the local HOG (Harley Owners Group) chapter and they said it before every meeting. Now I'm beginning to question why, as an adult in a seemingly innocuous club, am I supposed to pledge my allegiance to the flag. This isn't the military, there's no reason for it.

If you're wanting me to say the pledge to the flag, you're just wanting me to show my patriotism and that word is about as vile to me now as a racial slur.

If I ever find myself in an organization that wants me to stand and recite the pledge, I'll be walking out the door.

HRDS_654, in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?

To make it worse, I found out not too long ago that the version they made me say wasn’t even the original. “Under God” did not exist in the original version of the pledge.

EDIT: For those that were curious, apparently it was added in 1954 under Dwight Eisenhower.

IcyCockatoo, in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?
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This is still done in public schools in Texas, and they have the kids pledge allegiance to the Texas flag too.

tiredofsametab, in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?

At least through elementary school, yes. I can't recall for middle school if we did it every day or not.

Looking at it now in my 40s, I always think it feels like some sort of weird brainwash-y, cult-like behavior.

justlookingfordragon, in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?
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As a German, this entire things feels always so bizarre to me. If a teacher “over here” would try and make their students do something similar for the German flag, said teacher would get kicked out of the faculty pretty quickly.

The same goes for religion by the way. While we did have classes about religion for a while (Katholischer / Evangelischer Religionsunterricht), the teachers were more or less just explaining what certain passages of the Bible meant, how they had been misinterpreted in the past, what is similar or different between certain religions etc. but not even they were allowed to make their students actually pray.

PS: and those were optional classes by the way. If your parents didn’t want you to attend, you didn’t attend. No discussion.

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