kbin.social was the first thing on the recommended list.
Took them a million years, but finally. Many of them weren’t quite happy with the idea of migrating to platforms where they aren’t the main moderators anymore.
Though (well, I’m biased) I’d say recommending Lemmy over Kbin at the moment would be better, given the number of fully working instances
Lots of people take issue with the political leanings of the Lemmy developers which may be why it’s lower on the list, although I agree that it is more established.
In any case, that’s the beauty of the fediverse. Create an account on both, or choose just one and cross-subscribe to communities you like.
I won’t dive deeper into this issue not because I’m against the debate, but because I made it my personal goal on Lemmy to avoid such topics.
But I’ll say this: people are happily using software from the GNU foundation and they do not keep repeatedly bringing up the political opinions of the founder. So to me, this looks like a very flawed and one sided argument.
Lemmy is got, today, instances that are in direct opposition to every single worldview of it’s founders - and they can’t do anything to control that. Great! That’s how it should be.
To be fair, I tend to agree with you. I don’t think the software itself has anything to do with their political ideologies since it really isn’t a commercial endeavor. I was just identifying it as a common objection that I read.
And you’re absolutely right, people are free to choose an independent instance or start their own if they have any concerns about the owner of an instance or how it is moderated. And after all, isn’t that what this is all about?
I’m in agreement. The nature of the platform allows for people to organize as they see fit and there’s nothing inherently evil in the code. Sure, it is set up sort of like communism, but it’s decentralized in a way where it is more solely about the will of the people instead of one authority.