Kbin is still a thing? Or I guess not…

I like it, seems like a good way to get to critical mass on the small subs here. Can’t really offer any help, but good luck and thanks!

Yeah all of these are in theory in this “microblogging” genre of apps.

It creates that “one big chatroom” vibe from old twitter, while Mastodon feels like a bunch of people microblogging next to each other

Yeah you are spot on, the big problem with Mastodon is that they have all these ideas about how to be better than twitter that actually just break what people are looking for from the twitter experience.