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Cake day: February 15th, 2024

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  • If Mbin is meant to be a “Lemmy and Mastodon client” alone, then it is a quirky Lemmy “app” and less responsive Mastodon “app”.

    But it shines only when it scales. This, however needs more users taking use of eg. magazines’ custom CSS (and these don’t even federate!), keeping track on most popular Mastodon & co hashtags, adding these tags to Mbin magazines, following outside accounts to federate them to instance, etc…

    All the Great Exodus fledditors, people craving for non-tankie Threadiverse service, and also curious fedinauts from outside made this happen on kbin.social, and this is what I loved in it the most.

    Mbin happened when kbin.social was already crumbling, but many of its users (me included) still hoped for it. When kbin.social definitely collapsed, the previous kbinauts were already aware of not-tankie Lemmy instances, like sh.itjust.works (hosting MeanwhileOnGrad), sopuli.xyz, or generic lemmy.world.

    Maybe the more aggresive Mbin marketing (have you seen the sidebar of this community - it still mentions “KBin”…) would help Mbin - but only at cost of making drama with existing kbinauts. With Lemmy’s toxicity problem being talked much recently (and instances being closed because of it) I am glad, that things did not go that way.



  • I just don’t wasn’t then to waste their time locally blocking a clear spam account, that should (and usually will be) removed by the originating instance in a couple hours.

    I am afraid, that removal of spam account does not necessarily federate to another instance. On Mastodon activities federate mainly to instances an account, which made/edited/deleted the post, is followed from. (Or an instance can subscribe to relay, which exchanges all activities between all participating instances).

    Report always landing to your admin may be something good in light of this…



  • You would love kbin.social.

    It combined posts from Lemmy and Mastodon, allowing to browse and sort both of these like on Reddit. Mastodon toots were matched to respective magazines (like Lemmy/Piefed communities) based on their hashtags. And multireddit-like feature (called Collections there, and recently reimplemented in federated form by PieFed as Feeds) allowed any user to combine several magazines, Lemmy communities and Guppe groups in a single view.

    All of these has been inherited by Mbin (a /kbin fork), outside of Collections/Feeds.

    Largest instances are https://fedia.io/ and https://kbin.earth/. There are much smaller, than flagship /kbin instance have been, though, so both will be aware of less posts…