While I don't use mbin/kbin, thank you for your work. More software means more decentralization, which is healthy. The fediverse is a better place with you in it :)
Do you want microblogging alongside regular forums?
YES: Choose mbin.
NO:
Do you want a native app?
YES: Choose Lemmy... for now.
NO: Choose PieFed.
I've been very interested in PieFed and kept a close watch on it; the only reason I'm on Lemmy is the lack of a stable API on PieFed (which means no apps). Here are some of the reasons I believe PieFed is superior than Lemmy:
More lightweight to host; imo makes it "more decentralized" since the requirements to self-host are less and thus available to more people.
New and innovative features
Responsive developer
PieFed is opinionated to foster a positive environment. The platform itself is designed in some places to be unattractive to tankies, nazis, trolls, transphobics, etc.
I don't believe in seperation of the art from the artist. The artist somehow always profits from the art, be it donations, paywalls, etc. The developers of Lemmy are tankies, and one of them is a transphobe.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
I'm excited about mwmbl, a search engine with a novel user-curation approach to search ranking. Currently it's in alpha, and frankly, not good enough to be daily-driven. But you can change that! While I don't really use the engine, I make sure to use their crawler extension and script to passively help the index.
This isn't just a Frendica thing; you can see this from Mastodon, mbin/kbin, etc. Many people seem to think upvotes and downvotes are private, but the reality is that they're publicly available information by default in ActivityPub. Lemmy just hides the information on the front-end for "normal" users; If you're a moderator you can clearly see everything.
If one wants truly pseudonymous voting, they're free to try out PieFed. See the announcement post for this feature for more details.
Holy fucking murder. I nearly was exposed to that cursed word "murder" on the web—as if some twisted bastard thought it was just harmless banter. That cocky prick didn't know it's illegal to fling around the chaotic syllables like shredded bone fragments. Thank fuck someone mangled most of two letters, sparing me from a full-blown cerebral evisceration and a parade of crimson horrors. I was about to losing my damn mind with veins nearly pulsating like freshly spilt blood.
While I don't use mbin/kbin, thank you for your work. More software means more decentralization, which is healthy. The fediverse is a better place with you in it :)