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Why use MBin instead of Lemmy?
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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2024
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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?'
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:
I love the front-ends as well but it feels like every Lemmy update breaks something there. Alexandrite still hasn't updated to 0.19.5 (since most instances are still on 0.19.3 due to image caching issues), and upvotes/downvotes still don't show up in my instance.
What is Next? I hadn't heard of it before.
Edit: sorry, it's linked on the page you shared. Not sure how I missed this one!
I don't know. These are the frontends that my home instance offers. What I was trying to say with my post is that there are already a few different UIs available and it should be straightforward to fork one and adapt as you like.
Thanks, I found it here.
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,
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like when instances will host photon for anything other than the default interface, as then it's just a more limited, outdated version of photon and another point of failure.
Thanks, I hadn't considered that!
You can make these great points without the digs lol
Everything you listed is opinions and he is asking for actual reasons to use it.
To op:
There is no benefit to either. Test out a few frontends and choose the one you like the most. The differences are minimal.
More like narrow, but we see that all over. Mastodon users think microblogging is the end-all, be-all of the fediverse, even ignoring the loads of other, similar server software in that sector. Lemmy users talk about the fediverse as if it's only community-based forums.
In the meantime I guess, say, Peertube users are over in the other end of the room scratching their heads.
Lemmy-centric, I don't know... I've been using Kbin and Mbin all along. I'm even posting this from fedia.io. But yes, I admit to feeling that the more users a service has, the more attractive it should be. And I was also thinking from a sync POV, as there has been problems before between the services (which doesn't seem to happen now as much luckily).