The interface is great, and it's the main reason I chose Kbin over Lemmy. The UI is just much more aesthetically pleasing, especially with the Tokyo night theme and with custom userstyles.
Microblog integration is really convenient. I don't use it a ton, but it's nice to be able to view Mastodon content from the same place as all the stuff in the threadiverse. Magazines being able to collect microblogs with certain tags is also great (e.g., the !pixelart microblog section collects anything with the #pixelart tag). Being able to follow tags to have in your subscribed feed would be awesome.
The community on kbin magazines is really nice. I do wish there was more activity, but I love the interactions I have here.
Things to improve:
Activity is lacking in most magazines. I try to post and comment—I'm doing so a lot more than I did on Reddit—but not a lot of people are doing the same.
There are quite a few annoying bugs. Posting brings you to an error page (even though the posting still works), image uploading doesn't have any visual feedback, and blocking any domain causes comments to disappear.
Federation is far from perfect. Some stuff doesn't federate for seemingly no reason, and downvotes don't federate at all.
This is a general issue throughout the fediverse, but there isn't really a built-in guide explaining federation, yet understanding federation and its intricacies is kind of a prerequisite to using the fediverse (since federation is far from seamless and can be quite inconsistent). What doesn't help is the attitude that people who don't get federation are dumb or should just try harder.
There are other issues I have, like the lack of a subscription panel, but these can be fixed with userscripts. Even so, stuff like this should be part of the base functionality, or at the very least there should be prominent links to these userscripts until it can get added.
daredevil