Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source alternative to other link aggregator services like Reddit. The initiative...
We're one week into 2024, do you know what that means? Time to clean up your #SNS “following” especially here in the #Fediverse.
Check the “dormant” accounts if you can unfollow them.
Check which accounts “moved”. Follow their new account, then unfollow their old account.
And maybe there are other accounts that you haven't interacted with in the past few months; and their content is no longer something that you are interested, you can unfollow them too.
If you still want to see their content, you can encourage them to use #hashtags and you follow those hashtags. Or, join a federated “group” like those powered by #Mbin#Kbin#Friendica#Chirp and #Lemmy.
Of course, depending on the fediverse platform your instance is using, there are probably better features to the content of users without seeing their content that is not of interest to you. A good example, #Firefish / #Catodon / #IceShrimp can do that through the “Antenna” feature.
Take some time to do this, and start your 2024 fediverse better than 2023.
You can try out #Mbin, it's #Kbin fork, it has issues too, but at leave there's multiple devs and all of them are active.(And anyone can become a dev, and actually send pull requests that will get merged)
Flipboard has recently begun federation, starting with 25 accounts. These accounts can be viewed from Kbin with their posts showing up as microblog posts....
Has anyone found a clever way to host 2 separate activotypub servers under the same domain name so that they share accounts, e.g. I could log into an Mbin instance and a Mastodon instance with the same user credentials. Or is that not possible?
Given this is a software-the-instance-is-running request rather than an instance request as such, you might be better off posting on the (centralized 😅) mbin repo or perhaps asking about it on the mbin Matrix if they accept that kind of thing there.
#Flathub deserves a set of more performant and native applications than being attributed to a page in #Discord's playbook. Stay with me: are we really just going to blindly accept #privacy flaws of this messenger and promote it at the same time?
The fact that it only has got to the head of Discord it's long overdue to verify this popular #Flatpak distribution, I think, is worth a comment on itself, but I'll digress. It is nice that #OpenSource enthusiasts made arrangements for this verification and I have zero disagreements with the result. I'm just stupified that, in all this effort, Discord is treated like some spoon-fed royal baby - at least, according to reactions I see.
So, what was it... Flathub already had a library of nice actively developed #FOSS#applications before these news. I don't see the point in exaggerating the scales on some centralized chat thingabob with well-known #ToS and #telemetry problems, that's all. Thank you for visiting my #dRBBoard talk! ❤
Not just speaking technically but economically. As user number mount up their post is just going to add up. I know instaces may distribute user, but server space isn’t going to go down for anyone. It just seems like built to fall.
theres a great crew in the devs/other admins of mbin on matrix, and i am always happy to help if you ever decide to give it a go.
you can probably do it very cheaply. i went the most expensive route, and im payin ~$1.00/day. not using aws, you could maybe that down to $0.25
one thing to keep in mind, once your instance is up with a domain name (myinstance.mydomain.com) it cant really be changed.
im an old sysadmin, i hate social media... i just like looking at the numbers..keeping things running. my hate for the new reddit has overtaken my hate for social media.
Mbin is alive and kicking! A community-focused fork of Kbin, which has tons of improvements, features and bug fixes. Mbin is a federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform.
Feel free to host your own instance on the fediverse! If you are already running Kbin; migrating is straightforward towards Mbin and experience the benefits yourself.
@kreynen We try indeed to keep the issue list as short as possible atm. We are aware of many bugs and improvement proposals, including the one you mentioned. Kbin has like 480+ issues, which isn't helpful at all for the community. At this stage of development PRs are more helpful if you can imagine.
That all being said, feel free to discuss this in the matrix community rooms: https://matrix.to/#/#mbin:melroy.org We can discuss it there, we could even start a poll for it.
great questions! i think the good thing (or maybe bad, depends on who you ask i suppose...) is there isn't one person or owner of mbin. as of today, there are 10 owners/members of the project with merge privileges on the repo; however, we each need to get approval from at least 1 other project owner to "merge it" into the "main" branch.
github and the associated mbin matrix rooms are where most of the discussion about features and direction takes place among contributors, but i will try to make it a point to keep everyone here informed when a major change take place. right now we're trying to catch-up on the backlog of pull requests and enhancements that have been stagnating for months over in the kbin repo. @melroy is also pretty good about keeping the masses up-to-date on recent events if you want to follow him as well.
finally, one way to look at mbin is viewing it as a superset of kbin, that is, unless the kbin codebase changes dramatically or some other crazy thing happens like a change in license (which wouldn't be a good thing for kbin), it should be relatively easy to port over upstream changes from kbin that we want to see in mbin. my sneaking suspicion is that mbin will quickly surpass kbin in every way since we don't have a massive money pit like kbin.social holding us back, the focus is purely on the development of the code base and listening to community feedback/inputs. :-)
@reiver@weex follow up. The fork is in place and it's seem like a success already. This model based on trust is basically an experiment, let's see how it evolves. See: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin
Whenever you visit #dRBB, you will see slight changes in the #Kbin header. I moved instance's home link to the right to prevent any accidental exits. And there is now a solid icon just in case.
If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave a reply.
After some work by contributors of #Mbin to introduce an indication of magazine in the top bar, I'm happy to say that it's more clear now WHERE on the site you happen to be. Happily, my little CSS trick has adapted to it quickly, but I made #dRBB icon smaller to prevent it stealing space.
Again, thanks to the Mbin contributors! There is a lot of work done already, and I feel confident with this fork of #Kbin to improve one of the store fronts of Fediverse.
Terms "thread" and "post" are often used interchangeably on #Kbin and across the #Fediverse, but, as a reader, you still would like to have some guideline.
Threads are a primary tool of presenting information on Kbin. Think of a thread as a magazine clipping: you cut it out and proudly place on your wall. All you see from afar is a title and some preview image (if any). As you skim over the magazine and click on one such clipping, the entire thread opens before you, now including comments.
Posts are a secondary thing on Kbin. But don't let it fool you: before long, you'll have a microblog of things to share. Yes, posts are usually viewed in the context of Microblog, the section adjacent to Threads. One can call post a micro-thread, of sorts. Unlike your run-of-the-mill thread, a post can present text without any pretence. Reader scrolls through Microblog and they can see contents/replies right away. While lengthy discussions may be collapsed to 1-2 recent replies, it's made so to let other posts shine. As a reader, you don't have to change pages to expand the post.
Use Threads to present a pertinent material.
Use Microblog to share any updates, tips and little stories.
Mbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network (lemmy.ml)
Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source alternative to other link aggregator services like Reddit. The initiative...
Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times (lemmy.world)
How do we feel about Flipboard federating?
Flipboard has recently begun federation, starting with 25 accounts. These accounts can be viewed from Kbin with their posts showing up as microblog posts....
Seeing lots of posts from centralized instances (e.g. lemmy.world) (fedia.io)
I have ensured that I am not subscribed to any mags on centralized instances. E.g....
Mod resignation from the Artemis project
Advisory:...
Do you think lemmy will sustain scalability?
Not just speaking technically but economically. As user number mount up their post is just going to add up. I know instaces may distribute user, but server space isn’t going to go down for anyone. It just seems like built to fall.
[NEWS] kbin.run has completed migration to mbin codebase (kbin.run)
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