Technically, Tumblr is also a microblogging service.
I agree that kbin is a little clunky right now, but I appreciate what it’s trying to do. Reddit and Twitter often have this obnoxious antipattern of posting screenshots from each other, rather than crosslinking to posts on the other site – that kind of posting method makes it hard to find and follow a community or user that you see interesting content from, and can remove important context. Combining Mastodon-style and Lemmy-style posts and federation on a single platform is one way to potentially be eliminate that issue, by reducing the friction of crosslinking and allowing you to interact across both kinds of communities without leaving the site/app. For someone who heavily uses both Reddit and Twitter, it might make sense to be able to switch to a single alternative platform.
Unfortunately I think that Kbin is missing the mark on both functionality and (especially) interface right now, but the platform is still young and that could change in the future.
Technically, Tumblr is also a microblogging service.
I agree that kbin is a little clunky right now, but I appreciate what it’s trying to do. Reddit and Twitter often have this obnoxious antipattern of posting screenshots from each other, rather than crosslinking to posts on the other site – that kind of posting method makes it hard to find and follow a community or user that you see interesting content from, and can remove important context. Combining Mastodon-style and Lemmy-style posts and federation on a single platform is one way to potentially be eliminate that issue, by reducing the friction of crosslinking and allowing you to interact across both kinds of communities without leaving the site/app. For someone who heavily uses both Reddit and Twitter, it might make sense to be able to switch to a single alternative platform.
Unfortunately I think that Kbin is missing the mark on both functionality and (especially) interface right now, but the platform is still young and that could change in the future.