NixOS can become quite complex, so maybe stay away from it until you know more about how to manage your system ;)
The other options you've mentioned here are good, but EndeavourOS is based on Arch, so that may be contradictory to what you've said earlier.
RSS never fails me.
To be entirely fair with Kbin:
From Kbin.pub: "NOTICE: This is a very early beta version."
I get your frustration, but I think for now these reddit-related news have their place here.
It'll calm down eventually, of course.
Hm, I find it somewhat annoying that right now, this is not really searching the Fediverse, but rather what we've come to call "the Threadiverse", which is all about Reddit-like content aggregators.
In other words, I'd love an option to search different kinds of content, like instead of Threadiverse-stuff searching the most popular mastodon, misskey, or pleroma instances just to name a few.
On that note I highly suggest you read EFF's "To save the News" articles, where they also go over why targeted ads don't work. It's a great read
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-ban-surveillance-advertising
I'd say this is for the best of us.
Even the existing moderators have started to acknowledge that Reddit is no longer a platform for the people, and it was just a way for Spez to make money all along, even saying that the years of content can be marketed and sold.
People often compare the fediverse to E-Mail, for a good reason
E-Mail doesn't need to live all on the same server, or be made by the same provider. I can use ProtonMail, you can use GMail, somebody else can use Outlook, but in the end it doesn't matter, as we can all talk.
The "Fediverse" - short for "The Federated Universe" - follows a similar concept, but it doesn't do this over Email; The Fediverse does this using the ActivityPub standard instead.
Activitypub allows all the servers we have our accounts on (in your case kbin.social and in my case forum.fail) to talk to eachother so that content can show up and be interacted with on ALL servers.
This is also why I - someone from a different server/instance - can reply to your comment and up/downvote it if I want to.
This is essentially all you need to know to get started. To see where somebody's account or a magazine/community is hosted, just hover over their username / check the magazine out. It should have something like @name@server.example. We are currently talking in @lemmyworld@lemmy.world for instance.
check https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse instead, we have MUCH more users than you think.
Edit: also note that beehaw isn't completely defederated. They only defederated from sh.itjust.works and Lemmy.world.
Mirroring would be trivial, but you'd have to either scrape content yourself or pay for the API (soon)
I would also find it funny if they then linked a kbin magazine for posting actual pictures
Even if they are coming, I don‘t think any of us which are already here will switch back. They should‘ve thought of this before they broke their platform.