I know some of you consider this as documented whining. I hear you but won’t stop sharing my opinion and reminding. I recommend continuing commenting on the original post to keep it a bit organized (this post is a link to it)
Update: this thread has gotten out of hand. This is not what I intended, this is not what anybody should want. Let’s leave it at this, for now.
Mate, you are a none track record.
Recent posts:
What is going on with kbin - a week has passed with no sign of any life
What is going on with Kbin
Issues with the functioning of kbin.social
Why is kbin so full of empty stuff?
Why is kbin so full of empty stuff?
Mbin is born - Fork of kbin
Looks like the user deleted some of these posts by now… Only two are up. But this is ridiculous behaviour…
I’ve heard talk of mbin being a fork with more active development, is it getting “ahead” of kbin or is kbin taking changes back from it? No disrespect intended to Earnest, but a single developer probably can’t keep up with all this on their own.
I’m extremely in favor of being able to interact with both Lemmy people and Mastodon people, and I wanted to switch to kbin because it seems like one of a very few solutions that can do that.
Initially I was pretty skeptical of mbin, because as a general rule the “screw the existing maintainers let’s fork” people are usually mistaken about some things, but I have to say having installed and worked with both, I like mbin significantly better. My experience is minimal, and the fork was pretty recent, but mbin fixes some specific things that I had trouble with or that irked me during the short time I was working with kbin. Some significant instances also seem like they’ve switched over to mbin. Having kbin’s “flagship” instance down for like a week didn’t really help either. As I understand it, the mbin philosophy is “let’s fix up the backend and get federation more solid before we do much more in terms of big new features” which I can get behind.
They’re both very rough and early pieces of software, honestly as is the entire Lemmy side of things it seems to me. If you’re interested because you don’t want things like the 0.19 federation breakage, then I am sad to report that you might find broken stuff in kbin / mbin as well.
I honestly have no idea about the drama side of things. I wish all good things for Ernest and I’m happy with the software he 99% created. kbin has some things (e.g. combined Lemmy+Mastodon posts all in one home screen) which mbin doesn’t have, which makes it kind of a shame that they’re being developed apparently irrevocably separately at this point. IDK. Like I say I have no idea about that side of things.
Just my 2c as a person that installed mbin recently and likes it
(Edit: To answer the specific question, it seems like they’re completely separate at this point. They split in early October with no synchronization in the separate paths of development since then, it looks like to me.)
I think this is the most level headed pro-mbin comment I ever read.
If the project could attract and retain more of this energy it would only be a good thing.
This is exactly the reason I forked kbin in the past, the fork is community-focused called Mbin.
Wow, I didn’t realize making more commits and changes means something is better.
I mean, if something is working and it’s working decently well… does it need a nightly change or frequent updates? It not being updated as often as it normally does is not a bad sign imo.
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Not entirely, but neither is it extraordinarily healthy either. We’ll see what develops - e.g. maybe its creator will emerge from a binge of programming and it’ll become better than ever.
I still doubt that I’d go back after leaving it though - I waited so very long for it to improve, but it only ever seemed to get worse (performance wise), and it has major structual issues too, e.g. all final-say decisions controlled by a single owner who does not communicate much with the outside world.
In fairness, Kbin was not nearly as advanced as Lemmy when the Reddit protests and migration occurred, so a great deal of catching up was inevitably necessary.
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Are you trying to say a comment from me, or from anyone? My last comment on Kbin was a week ago, and the one before that was three weeks ago. I will probably keep my Kbin account and just rarely if ever use it, as opposed to before where it was the only account I had.
Or if you mean anyone, the Kbin.social server is back up now, so yes it is functional. The owner does not communicate much but he works hard to keep it that way, it’s just that for whatever reason it has major issues, though it is up right now.
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