From what I understand, Kbin and Lemmy are two different projects.
They both use the same protocol (ActivityPub), so they can talk to each other.
The main difference is that Kbin also has what's called "Microblogging", which is what you know from Twitter for example.
I just saw this site a few minutes ago, in a thread abput self-hosting a Lemmy instance.
Basically there's already a list of "bad sites", which will be de-federated from the big instances.
Yes, I also switched to DDG, before there were so many options on the market, and its been more than sufficient since then.
I have a feeling I'm not utilizing search engies as much as I should, as I only use them to navigate to other websites.
The built-in conversion tools are really great, and the Wikipedia info-box has saved me many clicks, but aside from this, I really just need a search engine that works, without selling my data to the highest bidder.
DuckDuckGo is just that for me.
LibreOffice (and not OpenOffice) is a must.
I have tried really hard to make the switch to GIMP, but Photoshop is too engraved within me.
I will probably keep using Photopea instead.