I feel this way about Hell Let Loose sometimes
I think it mainly comes down to the project landing page being more friendly and the UI being more polished.
The landing page of join-lemmy.org doesn’t show what the website looks like. The only screenshots are of code and github. That section is geared towards potential instance administrators, not potential users.
Excited for the ship building and the fact I can land anywhere on a planet. I’ll try this out since I have Game Pass.
Interesting article, I don’t think I have a use for them though.