That’s about it. Mbin also provides a direct interface to the microblogging side of the Fediverse. Yes, you can already see posts from Lemmy on Mastodon and vice versa, but there’s no way to actually microblog from Lemmy. Mbin has that.
I’m currently on fedia.io which is an Mbin, but the main reason I’m here and not on a Lemmy instance is personal preference. I wasn’t keen on the Lemmy / tankie connection, and I liked the kbin/Mbin interface better anyway.
Unfortunately all the high traffic Fediverse groups (communities / magazines / what-have-you) have ended up on Lemmy instances, perhaps in part due to the problems the kbin creator had in his personal life and with the flagship instance, meaning people lacked confidence in spinning up their own instances and went Lemmy instead.
Shame, too, I actually first joined the Fediverse through Kbin and I quite liked Ernest when I heard from him. Hope he’s doing okay these days.
I wonder if the mbin team has plans to turn it into the all-in-one Fediverse app, that can reach out and touch Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops, Peertube, et al. Seems like a neat idea. I’ll be especially tickled if they can pull that off before Elon Musk manages to do exactly that with X on the corponet side, since he’s been talking about wanting to do that for ages.
I wonder if the mbin team has plans to turn it into the all-in-one Fediverse app, that can reach out and touch Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops, Peertube, et al.
How do you mean this? Like, it’s already able to talk with all of those (except loops, which I can’t test so can’t say whether it works).
I just mean one app that bridges all of that together. Having all those services as different tabs on the same window, so to speak. I want to be able to check Lemmy for news and memes, check Mastodon, scroll a couple of Loops, and settle on a Peertube video to watch while I eat lunch without ever leaving the mbin environment.
I didn’t even figure this was a realistic ask, so if they’re already doing it more power to them, and I might come check it out.
Is mbin the same as kbin and is it still a thing? I remember hearing about it at the beginning but now everyone is on lemmy or am I missing something?
mbin is a fork of the (now abandoned?) kbin which integrates with Lemmy.
It’s pretty much the same as any other Lemmy client unless they added something I don’t know about, basically just a front end for the Fediverse.
Isn’t it technically a different backend that’s compatible with lemmy’s interface?
They have microblogging, and some other small features.
That’s about it. Mbin also provides a direct interface to the microblogging side of the Fediverse. Yes, you can already see posts from Lemmy on Mastodon and vice versa, but there’s no way to actually microblog from Lemmy. Mbin has that.
I’m currently on fedia.io which is an Mbin, but the main reason I’m here and not on a Lemmy instance is personal preference. I wasn’t keen on the Lemmy / tankie connection, and I liked the kbin/Mbin interface better anyway.
Unfortunately all the high traffic Fediverse groups (communities / magazines / what-have-you) have ended up on Lemmy instances, perhaps in part due to the problems the kbin creator had in his personal life and with the flagship instance, meaning people lacked confidence in spinning up their own instances and went Lemmy instead.
A true VHS versus Betamax moment.
Shame, too, I actually first joined the Fediverse through Kbin and I quite liked Ernest when I heard from him. Hope he’s doing okay these days.
I wonder if the mbin team has plans to turn it into the all-in-one Fediverse app, that can reach out and touch Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops, Peertube, et al. Seems like a neat idea. I’ll be especially tickled if they can pull that off before Elon Musk manages to do exactly that with X on the corponet side, since he’s been talking about wanting to do that for ages.
How do you mean this? Like, it’s already able to talk with all of those (except loops, which I can’t test so can’t say whether it works).
I just mean one app that bridges all of that together. Having all those services as different tabs on the same window, so to speak. I want to be able to check Lemmy for news and memes, check Mastodon, scroll a couple of Loops, and settle on a Peertube video to watch while I eat lunch without ever leaving the mbin environment.
I didn’t even figure this was a realistic ask, so if they’re already doing it more power to them, and I might come check it out.
He has a website, and its updated pretty often. He seems like he is doing good.