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Kbin or Mbin? Which do you prefer? (midwest.social)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Thinking of leaving Lemmy for kbin or mbin to have Mastodon integration. Mastodon is my favorite place in the fediverse and it looks like kbin/mbin will allow me to interact with EVERYTHING under one account rather than have a Lemmy and Mastodon account.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I prefer Kbin. It has the latest features (magazine collections, an aggregate view that combines threads and microblog posts, more options, etc.) , and I really like the developer @ernest. Aside from just being cool, he posts frequent updates over on @kbinDevlog.

Something worth noting is that Kbin doesn't have many instances. Kbin.social is the main one, and the only other decently up-to-date one I know of is kbin.earth, run by the creator of the Interstellar app for Kbin. On the other hand, Mbin has more instances, as most established Kbin instances switched to it at the time it was created (during which Kbin development had been inactive for about a month). Also, Mbin has a more community-oriented development system tmk, whereas Kbin development is closely managed by Ernest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey cool I'm replying to myself via my brand new kbin account! Your comment about having an All Content option combining maga and micros made up my mind for me!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Welcome! Yeah, the All Content view is great — probably my favorite feature added in the past few months. I have my home page set to Subscriptions (All Content), and it's the best. I see threads from my favorite magazines and microblog posts on tech & fediverse stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thank you!!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Quick question... is kbin.social having upload issues at the moment? I'm on mobile and I can't seem to get an image to upload to my microblog post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Kbin.social has just had some big issues recently and still hasn't fully recovered (which is why development is currently stalled), so it's absolutely possible you'll run into more issues currently than usual. Not sure if what you're experiencing there is part of that though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Image uploading on microblog posts should be fine. Right now, Kbin's image uploading UI doesn't actually give any visual feedback when you click the upload file button, but it does upload.

In general, Kbin (and by extension Mbin) is quite early in its development, so you'll run into a good few bugs and odd UI issues. They should be resolved in the near future, and as I mentioned earlier, you can go to /m/kbinDevlog to follow progress.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@ThatOneKirbyMain2568 Since you seem to be much more acquainted with the ins and outs of Kbin, can you tell me if there is any way to see the pictures contained in the posts in their full size from the get go or a single click? I click the thumbnail to get to the post, and then have to click it again because the picture in the post is the exact same size as the thumbnail. I know it's not a huge problem, but even having a peek feature like reddit does would go a long way.

@kbinDevlog @ernest @Jezebelley3D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The image icon in the bottom left corner of image posts can be clicked, showing the image at a larger size (i.e., what you'd get if you were to enable "Auto Media Preview" in the sidebar). There are a couple of userstyles that make this more button-like, such as kleanbin and (my own userstyle) idkbin.

The icon I'm talking about

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It works! Thank you very much!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i run an mbin instance (moist.catsweat.com). due to the recent fork, they are more or less identical... the APIs are still in sync, etc. mobile apps that work on on should work on the other. it might break apart in the future, not sure.

i donate to kbin financially to support the original source of kbin, but manage/prefer a community-developed platform so ive chose mbin.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The largest mbin instance is a patch behind everyone else (1.2.0- fedia.io) vs 1.2.1 you as well as most others are running. Do you know why that is?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I couldn't even get an activation mail from fedia.io. Not sure what's up with them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fedia.io was pretty broken before switching from kbin to mbin. Depending on when you created the account, it may have just been busted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A couple days ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah, that'd be after the switch then. @[email protected] is the admin for fedia (and a handful of other Fediverse services) if you're interested in troubleshooting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@IlliteratiDomine @DarkThoughts Thanks for tagging me. I wasn't aware there was a problem. I'll take a look.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

@IlliteratiDomine @DarkThoughts I found the problem - it was an error I introduced when moving fedia,io to containers recently. it works now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Damn within 3 hours on you’ve identified the issue and fixed it for users.

What horrible customer service, you’re meant to make us wait weeks! Now I can’t bitch about something I didn’t even know was an issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You're the best, Jerry. Glad you were able to get things sorted!