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.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    At risk of answering a question with a question… Is there a drawback to using mbin? Are there certain ways that it makes interacting with Lemmy awkward or difficult, or is it essentially just another interface? There are lots of frontends for the threadiverse - Lemmy UI is just one.

    I know that mbin has additional features on the backend, but is there something you are missing out on?

    • PierreKanazawa@fedia.io
      4·
      3 months ago

      For me it’s the UI thing. It may be the borderless timeline or the colorful info line - I struggle to focus on the title when browsing with lemmy.