Not to hate on Kbin, but I think there's a reason Mastodon is best for the Fediverse en (kbin.social)

I'm not a Twitter user. Never have been. I don't get how Twitter is useful for friends, communication, or anything but following your celebrities or news outlets. To me, I always got my news from Reddit, or RSS feeds. I loved Reddit for the content and information, and the amount of users it had that produced GOOD content to doomscroll. I never used Facebook for anything but the marketplace and messenger, and I never used Instagram, Snapchat, or a lot of other social media platforms. But I loved the fediverse for a replacement for all of those, and have just loved the community behind it all, because I didn't have to commit to any instance/site/platform.

But -- Mastodon just feels like it works the best medium type as a "fediverse" feeder.

Here's why:

1. Emergencies/News
   If you are wanting to get immediate media/news/updates, then Mastodon has the quickest option for feeds to reach you because of the "#" functionality. Keywords, not communities. If you need information on what is happening in "#NewYork" then you search for that and you can get everything relating to that.
   However, if you try the same thing in a threadiverse like Kbin or Lemmy, you get communities of NewYork accross multiple different instances that you just can't conjoin into one search. Hell, some might have posted to an instance that was defederated or not discovered yet and it won't show up in the search at all unless you know of an instance or community specifically.
2. Multimedia General
   If you want to browse Peertube, I haven't seen a Peertube video show up in my Kbin search ever.
   I want to have all the videos from Peertube, or images from PixelFed or even all the blog posts from WriteFreely.
   If I search for all of those in Mastodon, I get the blog that posted, or the link to the video or image. If I do the same thing in Kbin or Lemmy, I get nothing.
3. Doomscrolling
   If I am on social media to kill time, I want it to kill my time. I can't find that in Kbin or Lemmy because it doesn't reach that ADHD niche of constant content. I know that will be related to userbase but it's because Mastodon has a "global feed" filter that scrolls at the speed of light of content of every language, media, or content type that I can just sit there and get fed like a hyperactive twitch feed of content from the world that I just can't satiate with a threadiverse site.
4. Content Aggregation
   Altogether, I think the feed format for a concept like the fediverse is best served through Mastodon or a similar "all types" feed, through the use of Hashtags. Long form, short form, multimedia, and whatever, should simply be text-based search. Not communities to replace Reddit, or even particular media-focused instances.

I think a fediverse as a whole should be an unfiltered feed of every-single-post from every-single-person on every-single-ActivityPub instance to be fed through one-singular-live-feed that I can filter through, not search FOR.

If I have to search for particular people, then users like myself have nobody to follow because we don't care about individuals, their posts, or lives, and prefer a random feed of everything. The immediate feeling of barrenness makes me feel boredom, or confusion, when entering a small fediverse instance. Whereas Mastodon feeds me with every single thing immediately without too much to subscribe to or even click. I don't have to refresh. I have my own instance and it just feels easy to get fed every type of content without knowing where to start.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I might be using Kbin/Lemmy/Peertube/etc wrong in order to make it feel more global? I feel like I'm using it wrong if this is the case. I'd also love to hear where you feel the most "at home". (Aside from the typical "reddit refugee" that can't abandon old.reddit)