Yes, Reddit is going through its own API pains right now, and of course it is anyway a centralised social network much like Facebook and Twitter. So the discussion around alternatives has been coming up again. Lemmy has been around for a while, its technology is good, and it federates via ActivityPub to the rest...
My issue with kbin is that the way thumbnails are cropped and their size makes them almost entirely useless.
Agreed! Also found it to be a lot slower overall compared to lemmy