I am torn. Lemmy feels slimmer and easier to use with a wider variety of apps. Kbin has an advantage of being an “all-in-one” solution for the Fediverse with a better UI.
That said I use Mastodon for microblogging, so Kbin having that built in only clutters the site in my particular use case. While Kbin has a better UI it’s also more drab in color and harder to navigate. Kbin also has this karma/points system which feels odd. It skews into the negative VERY easily and is displayed on your profile. I prefer Lemmy’s upvote/downvote system but doesn’t have a permanent karma/points system.
I’ve been reading Lemmy is growing much faster than Kbin, but then I hear that “it’s all bots” and not real growth.
Where do you stand on this? Where do you think you’ll find yourself when this all shakes out?
Lemmy needs just one click on an image and it enlarges the image just below the post. Kbin requires 3 clicks to see an enlarged image. Maybe this is a settings issue, and I am all ears on how to make kbin work like lemmy. But, for me, as of now, lemmy wins with this feature.
I agree that is annoying, but that’s got to be an easy change for the devs.
Yeah, seems like an easy fix. I guess I have to figure out how to do a feature request.
There is a button to preview/expand media, it’s the image/film icon just to the left of the “N comments” button.
Sadly that button does not seem to exist in the mobile webpage view
True. I just decided to always show/preview media and let the thumbnails go. It’s been good so far.
THANK YOU. I didn’t even see it. I was expecting the same behaviour as Reddit and didn’t even think to look for that icon.
Click the little image icon and it’ll enlarge it for you.
It may indeed be a settings thing, but if I click on the icon to the left of the number of posts, it enlarges the image for me.
If you are on desktop, just click this icon. May work the same on mobile, I haven’t used it on mobile yet.
https://i.imgur.com/degvkLj.png