Lemmy for us was very broken, having many bugs. Kbin works a lot better, even though we had some issues with federation. Overall, the platform itself is quite nice and smaller communities are still fun!
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it has a lot of different names, not sure if that will help or hinder
I understand, but dislike kbin choosing their instance uptime over federation, and thus decided not to use it for the time being
Not quite sure yet. I just joined Kbin, but am having trouble getting a handle on how to get my content viewable on other Fediverse instances (although remote content seems to load here just fine)
I feel like it is heading in the right direction. It is great that users control the feed instead of corporate interests.
I think in general users feel giddy and hopeful like when starting a BBS in pre-internet days and birth of the consumer internet. Possibilities bring hope. Let's hope it continues.
I myself stood up lemmy instance to try things out and feel the same giddy feeling.
I found the Lemmy/Kbin environments distracting. I was so fine with all the time I got back when I limited my time on Reddit, that's gone again now. ;) I did read a bit Reddit with baconreader before dozing off, trying to do that with Jerboa is a tad harder.
I love how it works, I like the way you can subscribe to communities and magazines elsewhere. I still need to figure out how I want to interact with the communities though. Do I want 1 account on an instance, do I want to separate types of communities divided over several accounts, do I want to setup my own instance and federate that way,.... To many choices... (and that while I'm reading and responding away)
I totally love how it weeds out the annoyances that popped up in Reddit though. The overall feel of the community is a lot better. (although searching for stuff requires a tad of work) What could be better (I think) is the option to combine communities with the same name from several instances. Selfhostes is on multiple instances. Wouldn't it be better to merge those?