Here are mine! A handful of things come to mind right away, but there are plenty more:
⭐ The admin @ernest is an incredibly hardworking, kind, supportive, and an all-around good person. This is my tip top most favorite thing because good leadership and communication is essential to a good and thriving community. Ernest is a star!
⭐ The ability to edit titles!!! This is sooo convenient!
⭐ The ability to customize mags with CSS! I could spend hours doing this, it’s so fun! I don’t know any other social media site that allows you that level of freedom of customization. It really makes it feel more personal. All my mags are decked out :3
⭐ I enjoy making scripts/styles for kbin. kbin is the reason I began learning JS, HTML, and CSS. I am so happy I started learning, and it’s all thanks to kbin.
⭐Posts and conversations here are much more GENUINE. It feels like I am interacting with real people, with the goal of socializing just for the sake of socializing, which I don’t get elsewhere. Everywhere else it’s a competition to say the wittiest thing and get the most likes/upvotes.
⭐ No malicious, tricky, over-calculated algorithm. It’s very straight-forward and honest here. I love seeing a mix of upvoted/downvoted comments in comment sections too, rather than just top upvoted, because it makes me feel more apart of the conversation with everyone. Your contributions and thoughts won’t get drowned out by upvoted witty remarks, that is truly unique to kbin (and maybe elsewhere on the fediverse?).
⭐ kbin gives me the urge to contribute, interact, and create because our contributions have actual impact. Can’t say the same for other sites. Everywhere else is lurk only.
⭐ Tightknit but welcoming. kbin is small enough that I run into familiar people all the time, and I recognize usernames everywhere.
⭐ Authenticity. kbin is authentic and real. It’s not pushing a product, not manipulating what you see, not building an ad profile. It is what a forum should be.
That only scratches the surface! How about you guys? If you guys share the same favorite things as me, I would love to hear your thoughts on why.
My favorite thing is that it’s not lemmy but is compatible and we can share the communities/magazines between the two implementations of the threadyverse.
i haven’t really been on lemmy much, handful of times max, i much prefer how kbin looks and feels. can i ask why you like that it’s not lemmy?
It’s a better UI, and it had other federated content. I found I dont personally care for the twitter style of content, but its cool that it’s there. Love to see other implementations in the future.
Just the fact that we have two different implementations of the same concept which can interoperate is very very good. Actually I started on /kbin also but wanted to host it myself. I’m not sure about now but back then there was no documentation on how to host your own /kbin instance so I had to go with Lemmy.