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I use Mbin (well, Fedia, but same thing), and honestly I do that because of the interface. Lemmy's UX seems so much worse.
The microblogging thing is... there, but it mostly just serves some random post here and there. It's fine to be able to have a microblog follow in there if you want, but I think the assumption that you'd centralize multiple AP services in a single app now feels entirely obsolete. That doesn't get in the way and it's still a much better client for Lemmy than Lemmy, though.
You're right on that, the lemmy UI is horrible. Mbin's UI is the only which has card posts so that's awesome, but I just don't see much reason (imo) to use it over lemmy or piefed. Tbf mbin's always kinda been the weird one but i can respect its existence.
To each his own ;)
I suppose that's the point of interoperability. I would much rather support an ecosystem of apps doing the exact same thing to satisfy different UX preferences than the excruciating endless talk of "which of these identical instances all plugging to the same service should I arbitrarily joing as an identity-defining statement" you get in Masto.
It's not that I want a single app, it's that I want a single account with all my posts/data even though I'm using different apps. I don't want to have to have so many duplicate follows across all the different fediverse apps.
Yeah, but that's solved through cross-login, which I've already seen used at least once in Pixelfed. Logging in with a pre-existing Masto account and importing your follows should have been the default solution, but I understand how the tech may not have been in place.
But that still just creates a new Pixelfed account which trusts the Mastodon account identity, and it must be followed separatel from the Mastodon account. And you can't enable the SSO between existing accounts, and there's no account migration on Pixelfed.