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.
From before Kbin shut down, I was hearing a lot of talk of the Mbin devs being dickheads and spamming around the site.
I don’t think they’re genocide denying authies like the Lemmy devs, but the mbin team isn’t great either.
Why not look into something like PieFed?
One of main reasons I want to try Mbin is having lemmy style and mastodon style content in one place and afaik piefed doesn’t offer that
Counter opinion: mbin and the devs are fine.
There’s a couple of people here who won’t stop hopping into every thread about anything to talk about the things they make/businesses they run/etc.
Feels more like they’re just a little too enthusiastic over their shit than actual shitheads, but that’s just me.
Agreed. It’s quite telling that despite all the asking, no one has been yet able to pinpoint a single issue on the mbin devs.
The most generous interpretation is that it’s just a half-remembered thing of discontent from folks who didn’t want kbin to get replaced (before it was known that kbin was dead).
Piefed? It does, at least somewhat. IIRC the main thing is that you can’t follow specific Mastodon users.
- From a satisfied pyfedi user.
It’s more targeted towards Dessalines: https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342
Don’t shoot the messenger, just remembered seeing this post a while back
I haven’t seen that community before. Some people have way too much time on their hands to keep posting about things they dislike. But at least it proves that censorship on Lemmy is impossible, when not even us developers can do it.
Wait, when have I ever denied any genocide?
I don’t have receipts handy for that right now, though the company you keep does say something about you.
I do have you on your weird transphobic conspiracy theory, though.
Big words from someone who posts anonymously, and who never contributed anything positive to the internet.
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/socialism_faq.md#whats-going-on-with-the-uyghurs
Here is one of the devs with an entire FAQ showing their denial of the Uyghur genocide.
I’m part of the Mbin team (and created the fork), why are you calling us dickheads? You don’t even know the dev team. You don’t even know me.
If you want to join Mbin you can just join a Mbin server. If you want to join the community and help out, join the Matrix chat. I don’t understand where all the fuzz is about.
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de is also part of the Mbin team (thank you!), and he is also tired about all the negative talking about us, without any foundation of truth.
but the mbin team isn’t great either.
i keep seeing this without anything to back it up.
do you have anything to back it up?
Not an mbin dev, but I do hang out in the matrix channel (because their app support is amazing).
I’ve brought up mbin a few times in various threads. I don’t like to advertise as such, but if someone wants to know what my setup is, or is otherwise interested in self-hosting, I absolutely offer it as a suggestion.
After kbin.social died, and I didn’t want to restart somewhere else just to have it die too, so I opted to self-host.
Why mbin rather than PieFed? For me, I started using it because it does threads and microbloging, and I didn’t want to run two servers (and Mastodon install is a pain in the ass). I continue to endorse it because they keep fixing the problems I have with it, and they aren’t jerks about bug reports. And they actually respond in chat (unlike the dead SearXNG chat).
I haven’t seen any spamming (other than my own), so if you’re gonna shit on them, maybe come up with some examples. As for their temperament, they’ve always been helpful, responsive, and pleasant to communicate with (as least with me).
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.
@jerry@fedia.io 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.
It’s most like a Mbin thing. But if you want to give constructive feedback, please let us know via our chat or issue ticket. And show the issues you have with screenshots.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Both sites are legit. https://fedidb.org/software/mbin is also fine if people want to use it. FediDB is created by Daniel (@dansup@pixelfed.social), he also created Pixelfed.
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.
BACK yard??? Brother, you don’t even WANT to know what happened in your FRONT yard!!!
There’s a list on the Mbin’s website, I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned yet
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 !AskMbin@fedia.io magazine, so you can ask questions there instead.
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.
Is there a still a concern for self hosters of public instances regarding CSAM content? And if so, any guidance on how to mitigate it?
I am very interested in self hosting, but I am worried of its legal repercussions, especially since I am an immigrant in the country where I live and afraid to get in any legal trouble.
Have to say, I get that this is unpaid and great volunteering, but that website has pretty bad contrast. Sorry.
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.
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. :)
