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

submitted 3 months ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] cron@feddit.org 25 points 3 months ago

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:

[-] simple@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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!

[-] cron@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks, I found it here.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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,

[-] Xylight@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

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like when instances will host photon for anything other than the default interface, as then it's just a more limited, outdated version of photon and another point of failure.