no idea, I mostly use it to be able to read microblogs and reply to them while still using threads primarily all on one account. my best guess is microblog-only things don’t see the community and threads-only things see it as a regular thread formatted like a microblog.

nice. I should mention that the microblogs need to be put in a magazine (community) as well, but you can always just use the random one.

kinda, but you still have to put the microblogs in a community. it’s a little odd but I like it.

I use mbin and it does threads and microblogs. it’s a little janky at times and there is only one app (interstellar, android) but I like it.

how does it compare to something like jellyfin (or Plex, despite not being FOSS it’d be unfair not to mention them)?

well I’d say since non-federated Lemmy is just a forum with a bunch of stuff for federation that you won’t use, there’s no point. if you want a forum, then Lemmy is the wrong answer. Lemmy is (or at least is designed to be) an open-source, federated copy of reddit, keeping the good parts while removing the corpo stuff and adding the benefits that open-source and federation bring. with only one instance, it’s little more than a mediocre forum.

why use Lemmy instead of just being a normal forum if you aren’t going to federate?

Doesn’t seem to be on that list but Interstellar is the only Mbin app and it could use some more devs