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Why use MBin instead of Lemmy? (fedia.io)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (12 children)

the interface to all the exact same content, as you point out, is better.

why would i use an incredibly shitty interface that almost requires the use of an app, when i can access 100% of lemmy from mbin?

this whole 'lemmy-centric' view you have of the fediverse is archaic. you need to think bigger.

the whole point of the fediverse is access to all the content from your interface of choice... and youre asking 'why choose the better interface?'

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (7 children)

The approach could be to use the lemmy server software and a custom UI, not a whole new server-side project like kbin/mbin.

Examples:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Some if them are hosted directly on instances like a.lemmy.world or photon.lemmy.world. Others are hosted separately, but allow you to login from most any server, like tesseract.dubvee.org,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Photon is available for any instance at https://phtn.app.

Alexandrite is available for any instance at https://alexandrite.app.

I don't like when instances will host photon for anything other than the default interface, as then it's just a more limited, outdated version of photon and another point of failure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I hadn't considered that!

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