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.

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
    36·
    3 months ago

    Better UI & UX. As long as federation works it does not matter whether they are Lemmy communities or mbin magazines. So, why use Lemmy when you can make use of the same communities on mbin?

    • Treedrake@fedia.ioOP
      101·
      3 months ago

      At least earlier there have been quite a few problems with federation not working between KBin and Lemmy, posts and comments not syncing. It does seem better now but at the same time it’s hard to know if you’re missing a few comments or threads or whatnot.

      • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        20·
        3 months ago

        Kbin’s issues stemmed from lack of upkeep. Ernest is a good dude who did his best but he was truly a one-person operation and it showed over time. Mbin doesn’t have those issues.

      • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
        14·
        3 months ago

        A lot of the major federation issues in kbin were already fixed on mbin. Also, there were at least two major federation issues caused by Lemmy updates, which had nothing to do with kbin nor mbin and affected Lemmy instances accordingly as well. Of course, new issues can arise, but that also goes for Lemmy, or even just ActivityPub in general. But overall federation seems to be working fairly well right now.

    • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      3 months ago

      I’m struggling to see how the UI is better in mbin. Maybe I just use the site differently, I also don’t care about mastodon/ following users.

      • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
        6·
        3 months ago

        https://i.imgur.com/suCfFlm.png vs. https://i.imgur.com/m6WICCm.png

        Pretty clear cut for me personally. I don’t really use the micro blogging feature either.

        • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          So mbin compact view looks better on desktop browser, but Lemmy looks better on mobile browser.

          Here is Lemmy auto expand content on mobile and desktop:

          • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
            5·
            3 months ago

            I personally don’t use mobile sites, but the only plus for Lemmy seems to be the thumbnail size. Aside from that they seem both kinda meh. There’s plenty of apps for Lemmy though. Mbin only has Interstellar right now, but the Eternity devs said they at least plan to add mbin support in the future, which is what I used on Reddit back then too (Infinity).