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
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    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
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      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.socialEnglish
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        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
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      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
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        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
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          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.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    4 months ago

    the interface to all the exact same content, as you point out, is better.

    why would i use an incredibly shitty interface that almost requires the use of an app, when i can access 100% of lemmy from mbin?

    this whole ‘lemmy-centric’ view you have of the fediverse is archaic. you need to think bigger.

    the whole point of the fediverse is access to all the content from your interface of choice… and youre asking ‘why choose the better interface?’