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For those who have tried MBin, is it a good Lemmy alternative? (lemmy.world)

submitted 19 hours ago by MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I heard about the whole AI moderation thing and I'm trying to move to a new fedispace.

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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

but the guy who was mostly responsible for it is a bit of a twat and mostly used it to pimp Monero

Oh damn, I missed that bit if fedi drama. Is there a writeup of what happened anywhere?

[–] Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Without his twattiness there would be no Mbin. And a legacy of /kbin would likely be as forgotten as e.g. Prismo...

The fork happened when Ernest was already struggling with his commitments in firefighting on emerging kbin.social technical issues, developing things which would prevent these issues to happen again, refactoring the code, likely work and life and - as a nail to the coffin - some health problems. Forking out of project leader during his troubles couldn't not look like a some kind of backstab. However, Ernest, in a typically Polish way, has never trusted anybody else enough to enable one to develop /kbin further. This circumstances of the forking are the crux of this drama.

Melroy technically initiated the forking of Mbin, but the project itself embraces C4 and has got no (benevolent or not) dictators. Neither of largest Mbin instances are operated by maintainters of Mbin.

I liked /kbin more than Mbin, but the former eventually collapsed. You still will be able to follow people from e.g. Mastodon or Misskey and sort their posts like on Lemmy. Or subscribe/follow to any Ghost/WriteFreely/any federated WordPress blog and benefit from probably the best interface to read long forms on federation.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago

Thank you for the writeup! I wasn't actually familiar with the C4 project structure and it's cool that Mbin went with thay. I do remember Ernest and how that went down but I was curious about the Monero-pimping stuff. I was digging a bit but I couldn't find any information on that point

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 2 points 17 hours ago

I dunno. I just noticed it as it was happening.