Another fediverse newbie mucking about. Since joining I've been digging in and learning as I go, trying to determine what best suits how I'd like to interface everything. I am not, however, super well versed in all the ins and outs of this system yet. I'm not the most tech savvy person to be honest.

I've enjoyed this kbin instance so far. No complaints considering how new it is and how strained it got under the new user load. Grateful for the work that's been put in to keep things whirring. If everything keeps going the way it has I'll be sticking around. Though I have considered signing up to a different platform as well to use for more personal blogging, or interaction with closer friends and associates. I think I'm leaning toward Hubzilla for this.

The sorting tools used to filter your incoming feed as well as group contact sorting to control who sees what from what I'd be posting seems like it'd get me a long way toward how I envision wanting to use a macroblogger. There's a whole host of features I'd probably never use besides. The account mirror and syncing feature seems pretty clutch.

If this ability to compartmentalize everything works the way I think I'm understanding it, there's less a reason to even create multiple profiles across different platforms even if the intended usage between a link aggregate/subforum platform like kbin and a macroblogging platform are different. I guess you'd need a profile to moderate a magazine/community on a certain instance, but I'm not seeing much beyond that.

I know it doesn't operate entirely (primarily even?) on the ActivityPub protocol, but it sounds like it's integrated with with all the platforms operating on ActivityPub./?

Has anybody here tried it out? Are there inherent downsides? Anything I'm not considering that I ought to be? Any type of critical failure or a specific reason Hubzilla hasn't taken off despite offering what looks to be a pretty elaborate feature set?