Oh that would be interesting as well. I will do that. Checking back in 2h :D
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)
We do not have a "project fund" or something like that. Some of us have donation sites to keep the servers running:
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
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:
The backend changes we improved are (imo) more impactful:
And these are only the changes I could think of in 5 minutes. We likely changed a lot more things, which I just forgot.
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
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...
Nope, that is mbin :)
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
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
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)