i chose it over lemmy because lemmy had minimial interfaces (at the time), and i wanted a reddit clone. i also specifically wanted to follow some mastodon/universeodon peeps which lemmy is of course incapable of. i liked that theres built in karma. oops, i mean "reputation points".

it just looks/feels more polished

the microblogging side is definitely weaker, but it does function. i can check my subscribed microblogs and they show in my feed as expected. ive sent/received messages in those directions.

the mbin dev crew have also been really cool guys to work with, the dev team of mbin is an open commune of sorts.. anyone can help.

that said.. i would say mbin is a little bit process-heavy/bulky for single user... but you could tweak it for your use.. i know several that do.

it is a server application requiring some knowledge to successfully setup and maintain. its a lot of i/o