It “seemed” superior but it was super lagging in total recording time

Thank you so much for the detailed answer

If I can piggyback with a question: Does anyone know how “Read” status for posts is stored and accessible on both softwares? I know that it’s stored and it would be cool if it was private, but I’m guessing it can be collected and used.

Afaik, you actually can’t, at least for now. You can follow everything from Kbin though.

From my understanding, Lemmy is software, while ActivityPub is the underlying protocol. Mastodon, Pixelfed and Kbin are other softwares running with the ActivityPub protocol.

Jerboa has the setting you request under Settings > [username] Settings > Hide Read Posts

That must mean ActivityPub tracks read status and provides it. Just look deeper in the settings.

Sorry, I don’t know about Liftoff.