@pariscope Stick with kbin. It’s more versatile because of its microblogging capabilities. And it definitely looks a shit ton better. And will eventually have a stronger developer community supporting it.

Welcome! My advice is check out m/quickstart to get up and running

I tried both, and I prefer the look of kbin, but ultimately I went with Lemmy because I couldn’t get kbin federation working. It’s only a matter of time until kbins improves, when I first tried Lemmy it was really tough to install from source on bare metal so I went with lotide instead. Unfortunately, Lemmy’s federation broke with lotide and kbin doesn’t federate at all yet so I needed something in a hurry that works.

Another thing that could affect my choice would be the back-end. With the backend of kbin being php and the backend of Lemmy being rust, I expect that if you’re hardware constrained federation could be more responsive on Lemmy. I experienced something similar when I moved from friendica (pure php) to pleroma (Erlang).

If it’s not a question of setting up an instance, I’d prefer kbin, and later on I might set up an instance once it’s had some time to mature.

I definitely prefer lemmy. The apps keep getting better. It will match the Reddit experience soon. Mlem is progressing rapidly and looks to hopefully get onto the App Store sometime after July. It is being designed to resemble Apollo in many ways.

I did the same.

I like Lemmy aesthetic better, I find it more “inviting”. But I also like that Kbin has microblogging options.