Here (kbin), Lemmy, Tildes… I hear Mastodon had a user spike. Is there something obvious I’m missing?
I ask because I haven’t felt the same mass of users that Reddit had. Obviously users have spread out, servers have been hammered, UIs have a learning curve and so on… But there might be other alternatives I haven’t looked at that are worth that look.
I tested the waters at several sites:
- Mastodon felt too much like Twitter my taste, too many angry people and too much politics; the UI is slick, though
- Squabbles UI felt weird
- Lemmy had some problematic stuff around the person who runs it, and it felt more confusing on which instance to pick
- kbin has been my favorite; familiar UI, and people seem mostly friendly and chill
I’m using kbin.social mostly, I will just follow Lemmy communities from kbin once federation is re-enabled. It doesn’t make sense to me to have an account for Lemmy AND an account for kbin if they’re both part of the Fediverse.
I am also using Mastodon, even though it’s part of the Fediverse. I’m doing this because it’s more like Twitter, and the tweet equivalent on Mastodon is the same as a “Microblog” on kbin.
Ditto on the last point. I understand other Fediverse platforms like Mastodon and such should just work with others like Kbin/Lemmy, but the UI’s are so massively different. So I’ve went with the idea of having separate accounts. One for my existing Mastodon instance and one here on Kbin. To me it feels like the best way to manage it.
As a bonus to all of this, I should be able to easily follow my Kbin account and boost posts over on Mastodon if needed once federation is all sorted.
One additional plus to using kbin over Lemmy is there’s no “Microblog” feature on Lemmy. So if you follow Mastodon accounts on Lemmy, you won’t see anything. Whereas if you follow Mastodon accounts on kbin, their posts will come in as Microblogs!
and everything is still being developed. the fediverse experience is going to be better and better.
