I think a lot of artists are on https://mastodon.art

Brave would definitely not be my choice 😂

Its exactly this kind of bullshit that firefox should not do...

And here the diagram by community subscriber count:

All Paradox Interactive games ever created 😂
The worst I had was Hearts Of Iron IV. I played a 2h tutorial only to not understand a single thing the real game threw at me afterwards...

Hi there, mbin dev member here. I do not know melroy personally, but I have never gotten the vibe that he is egotistical or wants to make the project his own. Never heard that he contributed to Lemmy...

Btw. we do not have a lead dev. He is the repo owner though

The core problem I had with kbin was that Ernest is just the kind of person who likes to work alone and in his own ways. That is just not a good fit for a project that gets contributions from the community (which I think he is not interested in). For example: I implemented a subscription panel in June/July 2023 and it got no reply from ernest for months. Then he replied once with the things he wanted changed and I did, then no reply anymore. I think it is still not implemented, but I lost intered. After I opened a PR about adding the same code to mbin I got some replies, answered them, changed the stuff that was complained about and voilá it got approved... It is just not encouraging to contribute to a project where your changes get accepted after a year if you're lucky. Mbin is just more open to people contributing.

But yeah the start was rocky as can be seen here: https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/610675

Did you actually try mbin? Because we fixed a huge number of federation issues kbin had/has. Sure a bunch still need to be worked on, but we do our best and improve it with every release

been using kagi for some weeks and so far I am satisfied. It has a subscription cost after 300 searches though. But I guess getting rid of advertisements and tracking has a price

always . freaking . debian

Already defederated all servers I run from threads. It's just another reason why that was a good decision...

Nope, that is mbin :)

Mbin isn't making any drastic changes

UI wise, that one is definitely true

and relying mostly on Kbin's existing code as its base

This one most certainly not. We actually stopped porting kbin code a few months into the project, because it just was too much work and it was obvious that Ernest didn't want us to. So everything which changed on mbin in the about 8-10 months since, was purely our own work. Of course the basis will always be kbin, but the form will most likely change

We've been keeping the UI mostly as is, because we all like it, however on the backend site of it a lot has changed. The biggest problems kbin had were compatibility wise (federation) and scaling wise. These were the points where we made huge changes. The federation compatibility has improved a lot (yes there is still a lot to do) and scaling/performance has also improved a ton.

The biggest UI changes we made are:

• new filter designs that work for threads as well as microblogs
• a subscription panel
• a usable instance wide modlog
• a cake day display
• and more stuff that I am forgetting at the moment (it's been a while since I looked at kbin and I am mostly a backend dev)

The backend changes we improved are (imo) more impactful:

• (next release) direct messages are federating
• (next release) pins federate
• deleting users federate
• magazine descriptions are federating correctly
• mods federate
• reports federate
• incoming likes are working
• the "hot" sort actually makes sense with lemmy content because it also looks at upvotes and not just at boosts
• completely redone the hashtag system so it scales at all
• completely redone the background worker system so it scales better (partly next release)

And these are only the changes I could think of in 5 minutes. We likely changed a lot more things, which I just forgot.

My guess is that they just needed to have their own community for a lot of stuff because so many instances are defederated from them. Though I am not sure...

You cloud give mbin a try its developers are nice people :) Although there is only one app for it (interstellar)

Here is a list of mbin instances: https://fedidb.org/software/mbin We do not really have a "flagship" instance, as we saw that it created a bunch of problems for kbin having one

The same can be said about gmail and it is the same kind of problem here. Yes lemmy.world is not a profit orient it giant, but it is still a problem when one actor has this power over a federated network. (the scale of the problem is of course a lot larger with gmail)

Absolutely. I mean yeah 30-45% of the biggest accounts are on mastodon.social but it is the only one with a huge share. The rest is pretty diversely scattered among instances

Oh that would be interesting as well. I will do that. Checking back in 2h :D

We do not have a "project fund" or something like that. Some of us have donation sites to keep the servers running:

• mine: https://liberapay.com/BentiGorlich
• @debounced@kbin.run https://kbin.run/about
• @melroy@kbin.melroy.org https://melroy.org/thanks.html

My opinion: I do not want to get paid to develop mbin. That creates an obligation and turns it into something like a job. I already have a job and intend to keep it, additionally I don't want to take the fun out of developing mbin. To commit to it full time or apply for grants or anything would currently be a big mistake I think

I am part of the mbin team and I am really tired of hearing shittalking about us without any reason. Nobody has any reason to call us anything but passionate.

When melroy started the fork, really weird accusations were thrown around without being based on anything...

I like Nextcloud very much but this release (and the one before it) are really enterprise focused for which I don't have a use case...

I already unsubscribed from prime and if Disney+ is changing to the Netflix way of "no no no you cannot share your account" than that will be gone too. I already thought about unsubscribing from Netflix as well.
But I guess me and my friends are not the norm with a plex server that gets feeded by ~10 persons who like to buy blurays :D

well I am an active mbin contributor and cannot confirm any of that. He never tried to contribute to lemmy as far as I know and trying to contribute to kbin is just a big disappointment (I've been there as well). As for the name, personally I don't care. It is just how it is and nowhere does it say "this is melroys bin" or something like that...

If you don't want to get involved that is fine, but the rumors around him are basically all false...

Just for the people interested in mbin, here are a few magazine/community pointers:

• !mbinReleases@gehirneimer.de
• !updates@kbin.melroy.org
• !mbinmeta@gehirneimer.de

Here is a list of the data:

mastodon.social 38
infosec.exchange 6
mstdn.social 5
tapbots.social 3
mastodon.world 3
hachyderm.io 3
chaos.social 3
universeodon.com 2
edi.social 2
digitalcourage.social 2
mas.to 2
mastodon.online 2
journa.host 2
mamot.fr 2
mastodon.green 2
masto.ai 1
newsie.social 1
mastodonapp.uk 1
mastodon.nu 1
social.network.europa.eu 1
social.heise.de 1
ard.social 1
mastodon.archive.org 1
raspberrypi.social 1
mastodon.ar.al 1
social.jvns.ca 1
rottmann.social 1
me.dm 1
cyberplace.social 1
fediscience.org 1
cultur.social 1
qoto.org 1
mastodon.uno 1
digipres.club 1
framapiaf.org 1
social.tchncs.de 1
mastodon.macstories.net 1
w3c.social 1

Well, yes. On Lemmy you cannot follow accounts. However groups (communities, magazines, etc.) do not count as an "account" I think. A chart about the biggest groups would certainly be very interesting as well. And that lemmy does only support a subgroup of the fediverse is imo not a reason to not post this here

Please have a look at the smaller mbin instances as well. It is not good to have one massive server and a lot of tiny ones. Kbin.social is the best example of it, the second best is lemmy.world which just has issues because of its size...

Give it a thumbs up so we know what to prioritize 😊

I've been focusing on the backend and federation stuff. But I promise that we will implement it this year :)

I think it is good to point it out though. kbin.social is missing from the fediverse observer, but if you have a look at this: https://mbin.fediverse.observer/list you'll see that almost all mbin servers have a >98% recent uptime and a >95% uptime over the whole lifetime of the server. Sadly, fedidb does not have an uptime metric

(yes mine is not up there, because it was offline for a week in september last year)

Well google doesn't have realtime results. They obviously still have your account on there, because they crawled it propable ages ago... When you click the link though, reddit tells you that this account doesn't exist, so no BS. Just how such things work

I am happy with kagi, so... But I abondoned google a long time ago and basically switched from DuckDuckGo to Kagi

Nearly but not exactly :D

as far as I can tell the demo is Lemmy 😅

Yes its off. Sometimes its the small things :)
Sadly not this time.

Has there been any hate? (honestly asking) I didn't catch any of it. I was just confused as to why one would choose Java for a web app, but other than that I welcome any new platform. Thats exactly what makes the fediverse great

https://kbin.fediverse.observer/kbin.social there you can go to graphs and see the uptime. The overall uptime is actually still quite good with 95.94%, but in recent months it has been a bit rough

Maybe in the future. Currently so few people are using mbin that I doubt it would be any substantial amount. It also creates a lot more work when doing your taxes. So yeah if mbin gets a user base like lemmy currently has this would be another story. But it does not and it does not look like we will be there any time soon

I only know it because it is often mentioned when talking about trolling

I have the 4 and I relly like it. It can't compete performance wise with other phones at the same price point, but the mission is great and you get a long life out of it and good software support.
I am running iodeOS right now and it is just great, couldn't be happier. I am however not running games on it or anything, so not the biggest power user here...

I absolutely see the problem, but making users host their own server to host their actor profile and posts is just too complicated. I mean why not just host the whole AP server then... Additionally it reminded me a lot of Activity Pods