Fediverse memes

One thing I did say in my other comment is I like lemm.ee admins federation policy of block the spam and illegal instances and letting me block NSFW and bots

Ah, right. I was talking more from a broader software perspective rather than individual instances; I'm not sure what individual instances' federation policies are like. Probably the big three that people want to know about most of the time are lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net. I know the mainline instance piefed.social allows the first one but blocks the other two, so that probably extends a bit further than what you're looking for. I'm not sure if there are any other instances that have looser federation settings.

I also remember hearing about the Mbin version when the Kbin dev fell off the face of the earth and meaning to check it out (I’m sure you can guess how that went) mind telling me about that. Again like piefed all ik is it’s a separate platform that can view lemmy content

I'd say the most significant feature Mbin has over Lemmy is microblog support. You can switch between threads (Lemmy/Reddit-style) and microblogs (Mastodon/Twitter-style) and post or read from both "sides" of the fediverse. If you have people you're interested in following but don't want to set up a whole Mastodon account, etc., Mbin allows you to do that. For example, I follow a couple of celebrities with fediverse accounts, some software developers (web browsers, games, emulators) and a few friends who post.

The other big thing Mbin has currently is that it automatically translates remote links to their local equivalent. I'm on fedia.io but if somebody from a foreign instance or even foreign software links to a post on their server, Mbin will link me to the local version instead so that I can immediately vote and reply, without having to track it down manually.

Something big that Mbin is lacking currently is the ability to block instances you don't like. You can block individual users or communities, but if there's an entire instance you want to get rid of, your only option is to petition the instance administrators to defederate from it. Since that's an important feature for you, I don't think Mbin is right for you, at least until that feature (which is planned) gets added.