• EnglishMobster@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    It’s written in PHP, which a lot of devs dislike.

    It is drowning in pull requests: 83 open as of right now. https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls

    Ernest (the lead dev) wasn’t really expecting it to blow up yet. Kbin was created in January of this year, and the first “major” instance was launched in May. It blew up basically instantly due to Reddit imploding, and Ernest has been playing catch-up.

    But it still has rough edges - no API means no mobile apps. Lots of bugs and such from being a new project. It’s improving every week (including an API in code review), but Lemmy is more polished and has an relatively mature API.

    You can see a list of instances here: https://fedidb.org/software/kbin

    As far as I know, there isn’t specifically a privacy-focused instance like what Lemmy has. But I also didn’t browse that list of instances too closely.

    • Dameoutlaw@artemis.camp
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      While true there is the Artemis app for Kbin. Due to the API issue it only supports their .camp instance for accounts. It’s a beautiful app