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im enjoying an mbin instance
just in case anyone here is confused ... mbin (and its ancestor kbin, which is still running) work just fine with lemmy as they federate with each other. Upshot being that choosing between mbin/kbin and lemmy as an alternative to reddit is not exclusive ... choosing one is choosing both ... is choosing the fediverse.
I love kbin, never heard of mbin. Would you recommend mbin over kbin?
Hard to recommend one over the other, especially as I’m not following things closely. mbin is a fork and seems well maintained at the moment while the lead dev and founder of kbin seems to be struggling to keep working on kbin. Things could change though.
they also overhauled the threads view filtering, though the all content and new comments highlighting features are still missing
*bin also has an advantage of integrating microblog as well, though you can't change URLs in link posts
👀 that sounds nice. Can I follow mastodon accounts?
yes, though mbin doesn't have an all content view, so you'd need to switch to the microblog-only view to see these. kbin has much less development going on but currently has an all content view that combines threads and posts.
Yep, completely unique aspect of the platform. Some however do find it too complex or confusing, which I say just reassure anyone that that’s not uncommon if you do.
That site lists misskey as the second most popular fediverse network, but I never heard of it. I will check it out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misskey
My understanding is that Misskey is a lot older, from before the Fediverse and ActivityPub was a thing. It's very popular in Japan, so it might not have as much content from other places.
So firefish was started because Misskey development slowed (or stopped?), but it has had issues recently
https://fediversereport.com/an-uncertain-future-for-firefish/
What a world.
It's like Mastadon (but better) and very popular in Japan. Firefish is fork of it.
mbin and kbin are both top notch sites.