Yeah, I think it’s ideal that we use multiple types of software (not just multiple instances of the same software). IMO it’s good to have multiple “competitors” (really they’re more collaborators than competitors) because it drives innovation, gives more options, and while forking is always an option, it can be hard to get the ball rolling on actually using some fork.

Personally, I think the kbin dev is really great and started on kbin largely because of that. But right now, Lemmy has more features, fewer bugs, and much better mobile support, so I’m largely shifting to it at least for now (but would probably go back to kbin once/if it has feature parity for the features I care about). I also like how kbin has support for subscribing to or blocking entire domains as well as Mastodon style “micro blog” support (which it calls posts – I hope that gets renamed cause it’s confusing). But Lemmy has mobile app support (thanks to having a working API) and collapsible comments.