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.

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (9 children)

What ultimately caused kbin to shut down?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Single developer prioritised his life over supporting an increasingly complex project, I think

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago (6 children)

He had some health issues iirc, and frankly people got really pushy about a thing they don't even pay for. I don't blame him for stopping development.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I mean... Maybe some exceptions, but I don't feel like the community was being too pushy.

Stuff happens in life, people get that, but I don't feel like it's too much to ask for an update about what's going on more than once every other month and while we appreciate him trying to handle everything, when he can't, there needs to be some effort at creating a backup plan. And... then finally when people stepped up to offer to help him, he didn't appreciate them, ignored their efforts and pushed them out (which is why we have mbin).

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