submitted 1 week ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 44 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 20 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 1 week ago

Thanks. I do indeed a lot of open source projects in parallel. Besides mbin I also contribute and maintain dozens of open source projects and packages.

https://github.com/melroy89/ is my github.

I also host my own GitLab instance which also host a lot of my projects: https://gitlab.melroy.org/explore/projects

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 19 points 1 week ago

I got a lot of hate without any reason.

I never really got it either, thank you for your work!

[-] Fitik@fedia.io 20 points 1 week ago

There's a list on the Mbin's website, I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned yet

https://joinmbin.org/servers

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.

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 1 week ago

Somebody needed to share it 🤭

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 week ago

Have to say, I get that this is unpaid and great volunteering, but that website has pretty bad contrast. Sorry.

[-] jwr1@kbin.earth 11 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago

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. :)

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 week ago

yeh I agree, the hyperlinks needs more contrast. And also on the homepage the sub-title "A federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform (By the community, for the community)", can also have more contrast.

I also believe the text (especially headings maybe) can use a more bolder text. @jwr1@kbin.earth Try to set font-weight of 400 on the .font-extralight CSS class instead of 200.

@Aatube@kbin.melroy.org if you want to share your problems in more details, please help us out you can join the issue chat on Matrix if you like. And ideally share some screenshots if that would help to explain the problem. Another approach is to create an issue at GitHub (which does require a GitHub account): https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin-website/issues/new

Or explain the situation here in this thread in more detail is also possible, but that is up to you.

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 1 week ago

@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.

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

Great job guys. I love using it.

[-] jerry@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

It really is great and we’re very lucky to have the mbin team that we do. I sincerely appreciate them, as should everyone on fedia.io and the other mbin instances.

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[-] rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] bacon_saber@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

Hey! Not in my back yard!

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

BACK yard??? Brother, you don't even WANT to know what happened in your FRONT yard!!!

[-] bacon_saber@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago

Seriously though, trying to understand a detail about how this all works (anyone free to answer). Does each additional user to a smaller instance indirectly help flesh out the available content on that user's instance?

As in, more total users -> more total community/magazine subs by those users --> more federated content becomes visible to the instance's newest joiners after that?

Unless I'm misunderstanding how it works. If that's correct, then the benefit of each additional user would be most visible the fewer the instance's current users, and then eventually level out as more users join and the most popular remote communities/magazines are subbed by local users.

I mention this because I've occasionally browsed other instances during brief outages on my home instance. At those times I noticed that while the default feeds (not logged in) across instances looked mostly the same, some of the smaller ones were missing some fun/interesting magazines that the others were showing.

P.S. I don't think this was due to defederations but who knows.

[-] jwr1@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 week ago

Welcome! kbin.melroy.org is the biggest one that I've seen that isn't blocked on my school network. It's run by one of the maintainers (hmmm, m-bin, melroybin?) and uses the latest stable release if that's a plus for you.

To the best of my knowledge, there is no political situation.

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