I am torn. Lemmy feels slimmer and easier to use with a wider variety of apps. Kbin has an advantage of being an “all-in-one” solution for the Fediverse with a better UI.
That said I use Mastodon for microblogging, so Kbin having that built in only clutters the site in my particular use case. While Kbin has a better UI it’s also more drab in color and harder to navigate. Kbin also has this karma/points system which feels odd. It skews into the negative VERY easily and is displayed on your profile. I prefer Lemmy’s upvote/downvote system but doesn’t have a permanent karma/points system.
I’ve been reading Lemmy is growing much faster than Kbin, but then I hear that “it’s all bots” and not real growth.
Where do you stand on this? Where do you think you’ll find yourself when this all shakes out?
I see, thanks! Let me see if I got you correctly. You can use the microblogging features of kbin to make text-only posts on magazines, right?
Actually, now that I’ve thought about it, you can just make microblog post on your Kbin profile, right? I guess that’d then be Kbin’s equivalent of “posting to your own profile” back in Reddit (not that I’ve ever used that feature tho. lol!).
All kbin microblog posts have to be to a magazine. The “profile” magazine is called “random”