• irelephant 🍭@lemm.eeOP
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      16 hours ago

      No. They made a post about how they didn’t want reddit to be bought out, because most of the others bowed down to trump

  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Is mbin the same as kbin and is it still a thing? I remember hearing about it at the beginning but now everyone is on lemmy or am I missing something?

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      3 days ago

      mbin is a fork of the (now abandoned?) kbin which integrates with Lemmy.

      It’s pretty much the same as any other Lemmy client unless they added something I don’t know about, basically just a front end for the Fediverse.

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        That’s about it. Mbin also provides a direct interface to the microblogging side of the Fediverse. Yes, you can already see posts from Lemmy on Mastodon and vice versa, but there’s no way to actually microblog from Lemmy. Mbin has that.

        I’m currently on fedia.io which is an Mbin, but the main reason I’m here and not on a Lemmy instance is personal preference. I wasn’t keen on the Lemmy / tankie connection, and I liked the kbin/Mbin interface better anyway.

        Unfortunately all the high traffic Fediverse groups (communities / magazines / what-have-you) have ended up on Lemmy instances, perhaps in part due to the problems the kbin creator had in his personal life and with the flagship instance, meaning people lacked confidence in spinning up their own instances and went Lemmy instead.

        A true VHS versus Betamax moment.