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Undecided if I'll go back to Reddit, but there's nothing saying that I can't do both. Lemmy and Kbin both have a long ways to go, but I'm excited to see what happens. If I happen to find a few cool communities and/or make a few friends along the way then great. Always was a Twitter hater but actually having a bit of fun over on Mastodon right now (many Twitter users migrated there after Musk)
I wonder, how good are Mastodon and Kbin? I know nothing about Kbin, and with Mastodon I worry that, being so similar to Twitter, it may end up with the same shortcomings
Kbin I'm struggling to understand how is any different than the other Lemmy instances besides a prettier interface. I do like the interface but Kbin.social seems to be the main instance and it's having some growing pains right now (server-wise) so it isn't integrating with the rest of the fediverse very well atm.
Mastodon feels like a Twitter clone, but without all the right wing nut jobs. There is a fair share of left wing nut jobs but I'm finding it easier to ignore them. Since I never used Twitter much at all I'm finding it easier to navigate/learn Mastodon but really I just search some hashtags of what I want to see, subscribe and interact from there.
As far as Lemmy in general goes I'm starting to understand the bigger picture. Mastodon is an instance on the fediverse and I can see and interact with content on Lemmy from there if I want to. I keep seeing the analogy that it's like email servers so I'm treating it like I did the early days of email, try everything until I settle into a home and an interface I like.
Mastodon is very different to Lemmy/Kbin - Mastodon is Twitter, not Reddit.
Lemmy/Kbin are very much the “Threadiverse”. They see each others threads and communities, and effectively compete on server speed & interface logic.
Currently, I’m preferring Kbin - the new Fedia.IO instance is nice and fast and federated, so that’s the one I would recommend.