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Feature comparison - kbin vs Lemmy (media.kbin.social)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Damaskox@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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There's a chance that I have forgotten something or missed something.

But these are my finds, so far.

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[–] Pamasich@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If by "spoiler alert" you mean

spoiler

this

then it's supported now (ernest added it some days ago).

Win+. is a Windows functionality, yeah.

Some differences not yet mentioned are

boosts (mastodon's equivalent to twitter's retweets)
bookmarks / saving stuff (supported on lemmy, not yet on kbin)
votes on kbin are public, while they're hidden on lemmy
magazine/community css (supported on kbin, I think not supported on lemmy)

Does Lemmy mark new comments in posts? Since kbin just added that recently.

[–] Damaskox@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I understood that boost in kbin is the same as upvote in Lemmy.
What is voting in kbin? Boosts?
What is this CSS? How does it function?

I'm not sure how to look for indications of new comment markings, in both kbin and Lemmy.

[–] Pamasich@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

boosts

Boosts are originally Mastodon's version of Twitter's retweets. By boosting a post, you share it with your followers.

Behind the scenes, this is how they're implemented on kbin too right now. Though it seems incomplete, as there's not currently a way to view content boosted by your followed users without visiting their profiles manually.

kbin currently uses boosts to sort threads by top, rather than upvotes. Which might be what you were referring to there.

Writing this out now, I realize it might not actually be a difference worth mentioning while it doesn't add anything unique besides added complexity and Mastodon integration (which just goes back to microblogging being a thing on kbin which is already covered).

CSS

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is a language to describe the visual design of websites.

An older version of Reddit (old.reddit.com) allowed subreddits to specify their own custom CSS code which would be used when users visited those subreddits. They could completely transform the design of the site using that feature. Or they could hack in features specific to their subreddit. Many subreddits both big and small made use of that feature and are still using it even today.
Spoilers for example were done using links and custom CSS long before Reddit added their official spoilers.

Kbin takes the same approach as old.reddit. Magazines can specify their own custom CSS code to change kbin's appearance while visiting the magazine. Though I have only seen one magazine make use of that so far, so it's not nearly as widespread as on Reddit yet.

new comments

On kbin, there's a setting in the sidebar (the gear icon) to mark new comments in threads you've seen before (since turning on the feature). I think it defaults to off.

When turned on and visiting a thread, new comments since your last visit are marked with a yellow bottom left corner. This is a very recent addition and seems to only be clear enough with the Tokyo Night theme currently. On other themes the colored corner is very hard to see for me.

[–] Damaskox@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Updated CSS and new comments on the list