Lemmy is reportedly far lighter on resources than kbin (being a rust app instead of PHP), which is important for self-hosting. kbin (IMO) looks far better, but as I wanted my own instance, I chose lemmy. More content on kbin technically, as they expose Mastodon posts, but otherwise you can follow communities/magazines on either.
Lemmy is reportedly far lighter on resources than kbin (being a rust app instead of PHP), which is important for self-hosting. kbin (IMO) looks far better, but as I wanted my own instance, I chose lemmy. More content on kbin technically, as they expose Mastodon posts, but otherwise you can follow communities/magazines on either.
Lemmy is also the more mature product. Kbin is new and very cool, but it’s still very early in its development.
That’s true, it’s more alpha than Lemmy. That said, after the sudden influx of people, he discovered a lot of issues that have been fixed since then.
Being PHP based, Kbin can be installed on many free or very cheap hosting providers
That depends on the resource usage.
PHP is just use for prototyping afaik.
Uh, what? It’s not as if you can easily switch the programming language of a huge app?