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All the more reason it doesn’t need to be on the internet.

From my bedroom, right this moment, there are four unsecured networks I can connect to, which I do not own or control.

This is not an uncommon scenario.

Neighbors, bro. You can’t control networks you don’t own.

Are you really this obtuse, or is this just an act?

Some people live in apartments.

It’s more of an antijoke than a dad joke.

Mbin is a fork of Kbin. A lot of users have moved from Kbin instances to Mbin, as the Kbin dev has had some personal life issues that have interfered with his ability to reliably work on the project.

Elon is a removeding terrorist. Deport his ass back to daddy’s emerald mines.

The original Kbin dev is Polish, so English is likely a second language for him. Also, it’s still very early in development, so a lot of terminology put in use are likely placeholders until something more natural-sounding could be finalized.

But I’m sure Lemmy/Mbin probably won’t federate with Pixelfed, or Peertube.

Technically, they do! It’s not fully-integrated yet so the process is a bit hackish, but because the ActivityPub protocol works mostly the same on the backend, content from any of these platforms can appear on the others without much issue.

The biggest issue just has to do with the way you actually interact with each platform may not translate well on another compatible platform. For example, Pixelfed typically nests replies to comments only one layer deep, whereas Lemmy or Mbin will nest many layers deep. The actual nesting still works just fine when you view Pixelfed comments on Lemmy, and if you join in the conversation and reply in the middle of the thread, your post will nest properly for you and will show inline as normal for Pixelfed users. So in some instances, you may need to know a bit about what platform you’re posting to, on top of the platform you’re posting from.

There’s other quirks like Mastodon replies typically being preceded with @ing the user they’re replying to, which isn’t a thing on the Lemmy side of things. It doesn’t really change the way posting works, and you can choose to not do it and things will still work fine.

The unattainable is unknown at Zombo Com.

You’re not wrong, Walter, you’re just an asshole.

I’m not sure what the difference between SubClub or Patreon is supposed to be. Other than SubClub takes a smaller cut.

I mean, how else do you expect things to work? Internet platforms aren’t free to operate. Isn’t paying creators directly supposed to be the ideal solution, instead of infesting pages with ads?

What does freezing your credit do, exactly? Is this still something someone should do if they don’t even have any credit cards?

I’ve generally been pretty ignorant toward how credit reporting works.

Kbin is dead. Long live Kbin.

For those who enjoyed the Kbin experience, Fedia.io has been fantastic! It’s running Mbin, a fork of Ernest’s Kbin. It’s stable and online reliably!

Hopefully Ernest is able to take care of himself. I’ve only ever had limited interactions with him, but he seems like a good guy, and I hope he’s able to get back to work on fulfilling his vision for the project.

Holy removed, that’s awesome! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the insight! I’m not super familiar with how the development cycle goes, so my thoughts are coming from the standpoint of a user experiencing both platforms. I’m sure that a lot of the back-end stuff has probably had a lot of improvements, but the end-user experience between Kbin and Mbin are still largely identical, I feel.

I was gonna load up Kbin to try to do a live comparison but, uh… Yeah, who knows when that’ll be possible again lol

I believe that currently, Mbin isn’t making any drastic changes, and relying mostly on Kbin’s existing code as its base. As far as I’m aware, the Mbin team are mostly just doing maintenance-level development; fixing things as they break and making optimizations, but not so much in the way of developing new features. Mbin is currently just basically a copy of Kbin, without much distinguishing the two.

Since Kbin doesn’t seem to be moving much at all, I think it might be a good idea for Mbin to start flexing their own muscles a bit, and making it into its own separate project. Otherwise, having a copy of a stale project just leaves you with two stale projects.

Ernest, the lead dev for Kbin, has had a lot of big events happen in his life recently, so he has a tendency to just kinda disappear for weeks/months at a time while the project gets put on hold. He’ll usually come back, announce new plans for development, maybe push out a few updates, and then inevitably go radio silent again.

I believe he’s got a few people assisting him now, but development has definitely slowed to the point of becoming concerning. I think it might be time for the Mbin team to start getting a little more free with the fork.

And instead mentions Bluesky, which I wouldn’t even really classify as part of the Fediverse. Sure, it’s federated, but it’s pretty much just federated with its own self, and isn’t accessible from any part of the Fediverse at large.