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Why use MBin instead of Lemmy? (fedia.io)

submitted 2 months ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I actually started on Kbin.social, but then it got shut down, Kbin died and now fedia.io seems to be the largest one running MBin. I like the interface on MBin and I guess it's good to have a diverse fediverse with different services, but at the same time, why use mbin when everyone congregates on lemmy instances? The local magazines on fedia are for the most part, quite dead, when compared to lemmy collections. In the end I feel like there aren't enough people to go around to support many more services like MBin and Piefed.

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[-] ghen@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

From a moderator perspective it seems essential to have a microblogging section, because otherwise people make entire posts for simple questions or personal achievements. That plagues Reddit, drags down the whole site.

I still think it's missing something though, streaming video service support. Mbin's idea of combining known socials works great in that respect. Text and image, but needs video support. P2P maybe, no storage needed.

[-] ricdeh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

P2P? How is that supposed to work? You cannot expect every user that uploads a video to even have remotely enough uptime for any arbitrary interested person to successfully watch their video

[-] ghen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Only for streaming and I'm just brainstorming, I don't actually know how it would work. I'm just thinking about what mbin needs to be truly next generation rather than just a Reddit replacement

Reddit didn't replace anything directly, it innovated. And whatever comes after will have to innovate as well

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I love seeing simple questions and personal achievement posts though.

[-] ghen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

On mbin you'll still see them, just in a separate section. And that's only my perspective too, communities you join might dislike my methods entirely.