An update regarding the future of m/AskKbin (where we are headed towards) - AskKbin - kbin.social

andrew_s, 15 days ago

!askmbin

It won't show any posts if you're joining from a remote instance 'cos MBin returns empty outboxes for their magazines, but there's only one post there atm anyways.

Lemmy will probably error when clicking that link, so just wait a bit and refresh.

So this comment has one link, and two paragraphs about how it might not work as expected, but - other than that - yay Fediverse!, I guess, ha ha.

rhythmisaprancer, 11 days ago

Can you elaborate on outboxes? Idk what that means but I have been working on an mbin instance and it has been a struggle... Thanks for posting the ! I'm gonna use that, also.

Blaze, 15 days ago

Good luck!

GlitterInfection, 11 days ago

The link seemed to work for me from lemmy. I see three posts there when I click it at least.

Deebster, 16 days ago

Mbin seems like a healthy project, and the only sensible move from kbin.

aasatru, 15 days ago

PieFed is also a nice project, though it doesn't do microblogging so it's more of a Lemmy alternative.

I guess the whole point here is that people come from different platforms - I'm not sure it makes too much sense to include the platform in the community name at all. General names like 'AskFedi' or AskAround' would make a lot more sense in my book. I don't really care all that much which software a community is hosted on.

Wiz, 16 days ago

Why use a discord when you have … Other tools?

TheArstaInventor, 16 days ago

I already created the discord server a long while back when I was at r/RedditAlternatives, people knew what it was and many average users were already on the platform hence accessible, matrix is great but still not at a stage where the average person uses/knows it compared to tech nerds or enthusiasts, besides we already have around 100 people if not more on the discord server, reusing it made more sense for now although I wouldn’t mind creating a matrix in the future once the community grows to offer another way of keeping in touch with our community for those who have or are ready to go to Matrix :)

Wiz, 15 days ago

Okie doke. Carry on, good sir/ma’am/other.

nieceandtows, 16 days ago

Are there apps for mbin?

TheArstaInventor, 16 days ago

github.com/jwr1/interstellar

DarkThoughts, 15 days ago

No good ones yet.

jwr1, 15 days ago

If you have any feedback for Interstellar (the only Mbin app I know of), please share. I use the app daily, and it works great for my use case, but I don't automatically know what other people would like until they communicate it. (I'm the dev, btw)

DarkThoughts, 14 days ago

Well, for starters it only has a card view. That means only one submission fits onto the screen in full at a time, which I personally find unusable, because it is kinda like I have to look at every single submission / thread. Compared to Lemmy or Reddit apps where I can display around 4-5 on my screen, easily skipping the ones I don't care about.

jwr1, 14 days ago

I think the spacing for the cards might need to be adjusted anyway, but yeah, some sort of dense layout mode would be good to add.