Thanks this does make sense obviously and you seem to know what your talking about so I'll ask this:
Am I right that searching for a kbin community/magazine on Lemmy, or vice versa, will only pull in new posts on that community as well?
For example I just searched for the home assistant community on kbin and found nothing local, so it pulled up the lemmy home assistant community, "great!" I thought, but when I go to look at the posts it shows a number of posts,but not the actual posts, instead directing me to go to the original source to view old posts. In that instance then I am taken directly to lemmy from kbin and can't post using my kbin account. This seems like a bit of a limitation of the federated community if you want to take part in historical/existing threads on another server.
Agree. I find the slower pace or lack of an algorithm or whatever it is is leading to me opening lemmy, then kbin around once or twice per day (have 2 accounts and slightly different subs between them which is frustrating in itself).
Then I find myself back on reddit for a bit more scrolling, particularly of the communities I haven't found an alternative for or that are still more active on reddit.
I suspect this will change come July when the Relay app that I use on mobile presumably ceases to function due to the API changes. And my routine will just be kbin/lemmy (hoping for a unified app soon on android). But I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing and might reduce my overall screen time a bit.
Still, I am sad the reddit golden age is effectively over at this point.