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?

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    I use the micro blogging feature inside magazines where I’m asking for help that doesn’t require a link to anything. It acts like a standard forum in that mode

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      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!).

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        All kbin microblog posts have to be to a magazine. The “profile” magazine is called “random”