• ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat
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    I know there is a bit of drama surrounding lemmy right now, but in my opinion, kbin isn’t really mature enough to self host. They don’t have a good Docker environment, and while their docs have some Docker instructions, the process is fairly manual. If you’re a beginner to self hosting and need help, kbin is not for you. And by their own admission:

    This is a very early beta version, and a lot of features are currently broken or in active development

    Conversely, hosting Lemmy is pretty much effortless if you understand the basics of Docker. And their docs are pretty good too. Their Caddy stuff is incorrect, and they could definitely use some help in automating the process, but it’s much easier to get into than kbin.

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      Lemmy is FOSS so I don’t really think the political views of the developers have much impact.

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        Honestly, I’m not sure. I keep seeing people talk about “political views of the lead dev,” and I see this a LOT, but no one has stepped up to actually explain what they’re talking about. If you find it, I’d appreciate a link or something. I’m sure it’s there, I’m just too lazy to go digging.

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          I’ve only seen it mentioned a few places, but I saw people complaining about Lemmy in general being too leftist / communist. I don’t know if that’s true, and I don’t think it matters either way, but that’s the “drama” that I’ve seen.

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            Seems to be people upset about non-mainstream takes on the Russia/Ukraine war and China Uyghur stuff from what I’ve seen.

            I’m sure they were equally concerned and principled when it came to the political views of the Reddit admins.

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              I’m sure they were equally concerned and principled when it came to the political views of the Reddit admins

              Thank you - I didn’t see that coming and it’s downright hilarious!

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          Thanks. There was some good discussion there and highlights why a public modlog is very important to evaluate the health of any Lemmy instance.

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            Happy to help :) I feel like these kind of discussions are important for a platform. One of the times when I appreciate the fact that downvoting is not possible in beehaw.

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              Yeah I never really understood downvoting on reddit either. Throughout 6 years I’ve only had to touch that button like a handful of times regardless of how badly I disagreed with what someone else said.

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                You have better self-control than me :) Arguments with trolls in bad faith and trolls in general are ocassion when I’ve downvoted content. Not on disagreements though. Good discussions are how we learn things in my experience.

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      I’ve been wavering back and forth for a little bit. I just know the kbin plays nicer with lemmy than lemmy plays nice with kbin when it comes to discovering remote communities. Being a remote community, I wanted to make sure it’s easier to be off site, but I did just find an easier install with lemmy (I will try this) so we’ll see how that goes