That is odd when I searched for kbin.run I did not find any mention on why it went down. I guess they had their reasons.

That is why I avoid the .ml instances. I had an account on .ml before I realized it was a front for fascism.

@loops .ml is also the domain for Mali, but if someone from another country uses it, I guess you can be 90% certain that they are tankies. And going to fediverse.observer I see mastodon.ml is hosted in my country, even in my city! Bro, just... just get out of here! Get out of there or else we'll start another revolution!

@Gamers_mate

I know kbin.run was actually running on mbin. Also I have an account on fedia.io

@Servais tbh, Kbin was way too much in development when the APIocalipse happened. But back then it was the only Reddit alternative in the Fediverse that didn't have extremist devs. So I also used to recommend it heavily, together with other people that probably shared my opinion. However, the rapid growth of Kbin (which was not so stable/feature complete, albeit interesting as a project) must have put a strain on Ernest (the dev/creator of Kbin) who eventually slowed Kbin development to a halt, also due to personal/health issues. He also tended to delegate his work far too little as well, which brought issues to the project in the long run.

Mbin seems being worked on by a team, and there are already multiple active instances with different owners, so I think overall it just seems to have a greater future.

Plus there's also Piefed, which looks to fix many of Lemmy's issues that the 2 devs don't care about and don't really want to fix them themselves.

As for me, I think I'll keep my main account here and not create any new accounts to explore other platforms. At least for now. Lotide seemed interesting as well, but its development halted and I still have a bunch of Mastodon accounts to keep myself accessing the Fediverse should my server go bust again anytime in the future. However, Mastodon is based on the Twitter/X UI/UX, which I'm not particularly fond of. And much of the Fediverse has been following Mastodon for a while now, with some notable exceptions.

Also, people do not seem to think of the Fediverse as a whole. The Fediverse has no technical barriers, but it does seem to have some psychological ones - people keep referring to Mastodon as a distinct entity, or to Pixelfed for example, but not think of both as being in the same place somehow.

I'm moderately happy about the Fediverse developments myself; there's plenty of content and there's more and more on a daily basis. But it just doesn't seem to gain so much traction outside the nerdier communities.

I'm also having a general displeasure about social media as a whole, and while I still browse Reddit (my account is still on the older Reddit interface, don't know for how long) and YouTube, social media is no longer a place where I feel happy going to.

Now, to each their own. If you're looking to consume stuff on social media, I definitely recommend going full-time on the Fediverse, as it is a growing place on the Internet.

@Gamers_mate

Beeple is the most used though I think Cow Bees sounds cute.