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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[–] jerry@fedia.io 124 points 4 months ago (30 children)

I run fedia.io. I also run Infosec.pub. Which is lemmy so I know a lot about both. Lemmy is much more robust, but I personally find the interface for Mbin much nicer and the development of it seems to be headed in a direction I like better than that of lemmy. At least for now.

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

From a moderator perspective it seems essential to have a microblogging section, because otherwise people make entire posts for simple questions or personal achievements. That plagues Reddit, drags down the whole site.

I still think it's missing something though, streaming video service support. Mbin's idea of combining known socials works great in that respect. Text and image, but needs video support. P2P maybe, no storage needed.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I love seeing simple questions and personal achievement posts though.

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On mbin you'll still see them, just in a separate section. And that's only my perspective too, communities you join might dislike my methods entirely.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I just tried to see them and I couldn't. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place though. I saw dates but not the actual posts/comments.

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