Yes, at least until fedimint is more mature and works well with bigger amounts/onchain

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what do you expect more/better from fedi than from liquid?

Multiple things, while not having 100% comparable usecases i see the following benefits in fedimint for regular user day to day use (e.g. circular economy, zapping, spending etc).

"decentralization": there can be way more fedimints while there is and will only be one liquid federation in practice, making it way harder for regulators to target fedimint users. Also brings the bank closer to the user enabling the user to physically complain in case the bank pulls the rug.

Scalability: With many fedimint federations and lightning gateways you can essentially scale without limits while liquid can't do micropayments, zaps etc, especially not for millions of users.

Privacy: liquid is still a public blockchain, while it has confidential transactions there is still better privacy with ecash based fedimint i guess.

Bitcoin native: Liquid is its own token, making it more complicated to do transactions to "real" bitcoin receivers, while possible with swaps (e.g. aqua/boltz) its still more complicated to understand/use as user, especially if you have a separate liquid balance. I really think we need wallets with just "Bitcoin" hiding everything (onchain, ln etc.) in the background, exposing just unified QRs etc. Mutiny seems to go in a really good direction here, which i think is more natural to do with fedimint as you have the close integration of lightning gateways and onchain peg outs. Also with fedimint its instant, while with liquid you would have to wait a minute to pay a ln invoice when doing a swap out in the background.

Only bigger downside i see that it is easier for a mint to steal trough inflation which would be visible in liquid.

Currently liquid is still more usable though as there is no fully polished wallet for fedimint yet imo (see recent DNS problems etc.) but i guess this changes in the months/year.

The amount pegged into LBTC is verifiable, Fedi is not. Companies have more skin in the game than anon guardians to keep their users whole. Privacy is better on Fedi, no block chain but that comes with no verification which requires more trust