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Why not Lemmy?
Mainly because it's too popular, we need to diversify with mbin/piefed.
Also, because piefed has more features (we don't even have polls on lemmy yet, why?) and i think it's more beginner friendly.
That's just my opinion though, all of them are better than reddit eitherway.
I've honestly been thinking of a switch. Have you heard of any good experiences with those?
I have been using both Mbin (Kbin before it) and Piefed quite a bit, and both are very good.
If you want microblogging capabilities and prefer the UI, Mbin is the way to go. If you want the most robust Reddit-like experience with a bunch of quality of life improvements over Lemmy but only one UI and no apps as of now, PieFed is gold.
I think PieFed is my favourite for the time being, as I like the UI and don't care about apps.
Yup, i don't know much about kbin (it's both a microblog and a forum, not really my taste) But piefed is great. Only thing i miss is 3rd party UIs :(
I don't like the UI but the features are awesome, and the developer is active. You can even directly vote for features. There's also polls and unlike the Lemmy devs he isn't a PTB so that's cool too.
Lemmy can be annoyingly slow at implementing features, here's an example: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/181, and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/787.
As a MBin user, I think it depends on what you're looking for:
If you want to be able to follow and interact with Mastodon users, and microblogging side of the Fediverse in general I recommend Mbin
If you only care about groups (communities) and interacting with them I recommend Piefed