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.
Easily the mobile experience. Sure, I’d like Apollo back, but the mobile site is so much better than Reddit could’ve ever dreamed.
true, i am really impressed with how well kbin works on mobile browsers. it’s very easy to use and navigate, most other sites cannot say the same, which is weird, since people are on mobile devices more often than desktop so you’d think it would be perfected. kbins mobile browser experience feels like an app.
also rip apollo (◞‸◟）
I always preferred RiF, but I think we can all agree that every third party app was better than the dogshit OfFiCiaL rEdDiT aPp!