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Mbin instances (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Quick question, I’m looking to make an Mbin account and just wanted to ask if there is any lemmy.ml type of situation to be aware of.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When I created the Mbin fork, I got a lot of hate without any reason. The reason the fork was created was simply because the kbin development was stopping their development. And the project was a bit trapped by a single maintainer. Hence also the reason I introduced C4 spec: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/blob/main/C4.md.

Since C4 spec is in place, I'm not the only maintainer. Multiple people have full rights of the project. But I'm also tired about all the sh*ttalk about us.

If you have any follow-up questions to me personally (I can only speak on my own behalf). Just post them below my comment.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It seems there are always people on the internet who spread negativity about those who actually create things. Best you can do is ignore them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apparently so. And I don't even get paid to do development. I also have a full-time job at the same time. So Mbin development takes a lot time and effort. And people don't see that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just checked out your website, you have a lot of active projects, impressive! I only work on Lemmy, fulltime, but yet there is way too much work.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Thanks. I do indeed a lot of open source projects in parallel. Besides mbin I also contribute and maintain dozens of open source projects and packages.

https://github.com/melroy89/ is my github.

I also host my own GitLab instance which also host a lot of my projects: https://gitlab.melroy.org/explore/projects

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

I got a lot of hate without any reason.

I never really got it either, thank you for your work!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There's a list on the Mbin's website, I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned yet

https://joinmbin.org/servers

I can recommend these instances:

  • fedia.io (It's the biggest one, so it would be better to avoid for the decentralization)
  • kbin.earth
  • thebrainbit.org

The later two are run by mbin devs so they should be pretty good

Additionaly there's [email protected] magazine, so you can ask questions there instead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Somebody needed to share it 🤭

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Alternatively, setup your own instance is my best advice. If you have some technical skills to setup one. That would help decentralizing the most of course. If you need to help. We are happy to help.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have to say, I get that this is unpaid and great volunteering, but that website has pretty bad contrast. Sorry.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm the one who made the website. Do you think if we just brightened the outlines around the ui elements that that would help with the contrast?

To me, it looks fine, but if changing something made it better for other people, I'm all for it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like dark theme is often tricky on different monitors - If the font is too heavy it'll look awful, if it's too light it might look bad on low resolution displays. Combined with different colour contrasts on different screens, and it gets really difficult to know what people will end up seeing.

The headline - "MBIN SERVERS" - looks great on my 4K monitor, but slightly less good on a worse one. The same goes for the text stating that "Also view servers on FediDB and Fediverse Observer", but it's not so bad for the white text. The hyperlinks, however, might suffer from a lack of contrast with the background (a slightly too dark blue) combined with very thin text on low resolution monitors.

I guess brighter hyperlinks could also benefit the names of instances.

It's not something I ever noticed myself when using the site, but keeping it in the back of my head while looking at it I can see why some might have some problems with it. :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

yeh I agree, the hyperlinks needs more contrast. And also on the homepage the sub-title "A federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform (By the community, for the community)", can also have more contrast.

I also believe the text (especially headings maybe) can use a more bolder text. @[email protected] Try to set font-weight of 400 on the .font-extralight CSS class instead of 200.

@[email protected] if you want to share your problems in more details, please help us out you can join the issue chat on Matrix if you like. And ideally share some screenshots if that would help to explain the problem. Another approach is to create an issue at GitHub (which does require a GitHub account): https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin-website/issues/new

Or explain the situation here in this thread in more detail is also possible, but that is up to you.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm using fedia.io and it's very stable. Nice after the instability of kbin.social and kbin.run. although I could be bad luck and causing the devs to run.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

@[email protected] is helping us a lot! And the Mbin devs are in close contact with him to keep the server up and running as stable as possible. Both parties are trying to respond quickly. And we all appreciate that a lot! I can't thank Jerry and the Mbin community enough for this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Great job guys. I love using it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It really is great and we’re very lucky to have the mbin team that we do. I sincerely appreciate them, as should everyone on fedia.io and the other mbin instances.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Try to avoid making an account on one of the main instances (fedia.io, kbin.earth, etc.). List of Mbin instances: ~~https://fedidb.org/software/mbin~~ https://joinmbin.org/servers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I disagree. Mbin is so small at this point that going to fedia.io isn't even an issue.

As users pour in, over the millions, then they'll spread out. But for now, it's kind of like worrying that the town is getting too crowded because a 5th house was built, and the other town only has 2 houses.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Both sites are legit. https://fedidb.org/software/mbin is also fine if people want to use it. FediDB is created by Daniel (@[email protected]), he also created Pixelfed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

When you filter the servers to open registration and up-to-date/not-abandoned, there's actually a really limited selection of Mbin servers left (5 total). So I don't think decentralization matters to much in this case. Those servers include: fedia.io, kbin.earth, kbin.melroy.org, moist.catsweat.com, and thebrainbin.org. There's also gehirneimer.de for German language.

You can see the full list here: joinmbin.org/servers

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Welcome! kbin.melroy.org is the biggest one that I've seen that isn't blocked on my school network. It's run by one of the maintainers (hmmm, m-bin, melroybin?) and uses the latest stable release if that's a plus for you.

To the best of my knowledge, there is no political situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

yes kbin.melroy.org (sorry about the kbin subdomain name, but changing the domain name will cause federation issues...) is indeed from me (Melroy). And since I wasn't creative the m in Mbin stands indeed for Melroy. Which is my first name. I was also a very active contributor of /kbin on Codeberg before the fork.

Disclaimer: Anyways, since I'm also developing, I sometimes do test some patches or run the latest greatest bleeding edge version from the main branch. Just saying :). Which might not always be the most stable haha. BUT!! You can you run & test the latest features, that is for sure. Haha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What exactly happened for the name to be changed from Kbin to Mbin? I missed that plot point.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Like people already mentioned below, a fork was created after kbin development halted. And the project maintainer was absent but at the same time didn't delegated the work fully. Hence the creation of the fork: Mbin.

I wasn't creative, so the M in Mbin stands for my name: Melroy. xd

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Mbin is a fork of Kbin. A lot of users have moved from Kbin instances to Mbin, as the Kbin dev has had some personal life issues that have interfered with his ability to reliably work on the project.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mbin is a community fork of Kbin. Even while Kbin was still a thing it was already much faster in making changes & additions than Kbin and by now Kbin & Kbin.social is basically dead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

This is indeed all true. Mbin is named after Melroy (I know, I wasn't creative). And by introducing the C4 spec, I made sure the project isn't in hands by a single maintainer and multiple people are already and can become full maintainers of the Mbin project. Hence the reason I also describe it as: "By community, for the community".

We welcome any developer to join us and help if you would like to contribute (in any way or form you like). You can find us at Matrix chat.

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