i went surfing for server applications about 8 months ago in an effort to replace my reddit addiction.
lemmy had 2 marks against it:
a. its fugly
b. does not interact with 50% of the fediverse... it cant use the 'microblog/twitter' side of the fediverse.
kbin at the time was one of the few products attempting both the Threaded forums, and Microblog posting, so i jumped in to that. a short time later kbin was forked for.. development conflict reasons. i went with mbin.
so i now have a fairly scalable, reliable reddit replacement where i can doomscroll all day and see nonsense tweets from george takei.
im hoping to provide the same for other reddit refugees