I actually started on Kbin.social, but then it got shut down, Kbin died and now fedia.io seems to be the largest one running MBin. I like the interface on MBin and I guess it’s good to have a diverse fediverse with different services, but at the same time, why use mbin when everyone congregates on lemmy instances? The local magazines on fedia are for the most part, quite dead, when compared to lemmy collections. In the end I feel like there aren’t enough people to go around to support many more services like MBin and Piefed.

  • jerry@fedia.io
    99·
    4 months ago

    I run fedia.io. I also run Infosec.pub. Which is lemmy so I know a lot about both. Lemmy is much more robust, but I personally find the interface for Mbin much nicer and the development of it seems to be headed in a direction I like better than that of lemmy. At least for now.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      27·
      4 months ago

      Jerry … admin of many instances!

      the development of it seems to be headed in a direction I like better than that of lemmy

      Just curious what sorts of things you have in mind here … it’s been a while since I used a k/mbin platform? (I was on kbin.social, RIP, hopefully it returns).

      • cabbage@piefed.social
        201·
        4 months ago

        Mbin is very community oriented in it’s development, collective decision-making and all that. Lemmy is more subject to the ideas of it’s creators, for better or for worse.

    • Treedrake@fedia.ioOP
      13·
      4 months ago

      Thanks for answering! Nothing against fedia, after all I’m posting from here, just asked out of curiosity… would’ve been fun if the local magazines were somewhat more active. Though I guess there lies the fediverse’s strength, of being able to post and read in this collection for example.

      • jerry@fedia.io
        38·
        4 months ago

        There’s a reason for that. About a year ago, Reddit started to implode. I set up Infosec.pub and Fedia to give people an alternative. There was a huge influx of people here creating all sorts of magazines, the same that you would see on Reddit. Fedia ran kbin at the time and it had all manner of problems, and over time people sort of wandered away. Either because they were tired of the problems or because they went back to Reddit.

        In any event, what we see in the local magazines is the remnants of that initial migration. I really need to go and clean them up.

        Now that Fedia is on mbin, things are much better. We still have issues now and then, but generally things work well.

        • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
          8·
          4 months ago

          Thanks for this! I escaped Reddit to Kbin.social to Kbin.run, and now landed at Fedia.io. I need to reconstruct some of the communities I started on the previous two. And will soon. It’s just gotten a bit busy IRL.

      • hitstun@fedia.io
        3·
        4 months ago

        would’ve been fun if the local magazines were somewhat more active.

        I’m trying! :P

        I originally chose Kbin/Mbin over Lemmy because of the added support for Mastodon-like posts, but it’s still suffers from wonky early adopter stuff. I still rather like Mbin’s interface more than Lemmy’s defaults, though Lemmy’s support for third party front ends is very cool. Whichever way you go, I’m happy that Mbin and Lemmy have access to all the same content. Mbin could grow more if some of a magazine’s custom CSS could federate to other instances, or if it supported bots like Lemmy.

        Oh dang, I’m gonna have to look into PieFed, though. That looks good! I’d like to see how my community looks, but I think a registered piefed.social user has to do this community lookup for federation to begin.

    • ghen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      42·
      4 months ago

      From a moderator perspective it seems essential to have a microblogging section, because otherwise people make entire posts for simple questions or personal achievements. That plagues Reddit, drags down the whole site.

      I still think it’s missing something though, streaming video service support. Mbin’s idea of combining known socials works great in that respect. Text and image, but needs video support. P2P maybe, no storage needed.

        • ghen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          On mbin you’ll still see them, just in a separate section. And that’s only my perspective too, communities you join might dislike my methods entirely.

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            I just tried to see them and I couldn’t. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place though. I saw dates but not the actual posts/comments.