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What is the practical difference between the main instances of kbin and mbin, from a users perspective? (kbin.social)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social
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When spam started to become overwhelming here I signed up to the largest mbin instance, Fedia.io. On one hand it runs well and isn't overrun with spam posts. On the other, it's missing some communities that are active on kbin.social.

It also doesn't have a meta or askmbin type of community, like kbin does.

Are there any other differences I should consider before deciding which of the two to drop?

Edit: I also got a server error when I posted this and thought my post had been lost. Phew! This doesn't happen on Fedia.io.

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[-] kreynen@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

I'm not directly involved in either project beyond reporting bugs and suggesting features yet, but I follow both projects closely. My sense is that the Mbin community is prioritizing collaboration around UX improvements while Kbin is focusing on scaling/performance issues... which makes sense as kbin.social is more than 10x the size of fedia.io (https://fedidb.org/network/instance/kbin.social vs https://fedidb.org/network). I opened a bug about the UI for altering link images at https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1365. When I tested the same steps in Mbin, the issue i was seeing in Kbin had already been solved in Mbin.

Kbin is a great PHP implementation of ActivityPub for reddit-like communities, but requiring all major changes to be made/reviewed by a single person is a real bottle neck.

It would be great if Kbin could figure out some form of goverance/delegation that would allow more contributors, but there doesn't seem to be much interest in that type of change so for now we have 2 project with different priorities and governance models... and that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

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