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.

  • Treedrake@fedia.ioOP
    16·
    3 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
      44·
      3 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
        11·
        3 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·
      3 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.