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A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

Getting started on Fediverse;

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Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source alternative to other link aggregator services like Reddit. The initiative aims to promote a free and open internet.

Mbin is focused on what the community wants, pull requests can be merged by any repo owner (with merge rights in GitHub). Discussions take place on Matrix then consensus has to be reached by the community. If approved by the community, only one approval on the PR is required by one of the Mbin maintainers. It's built entirely on trust.

It seems it's claim to fame is being more open and accepting of community changes and improvements. It can install as either bare metal/VM or as a Docker container.

Although anyone can install it and self-host it, their project page also contains a link to various instances that already exist and which anyone can register on.

See https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

#technology #opensource #Fediverse #linkaggregator #decentralised

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[–] danie10@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That was the instance I signed up at, about 10 mins before I posted this link. Lemmy also went down in the last day, so nothing is bulletproof. But the site is working as I'm browsing and commenting right now.

[–] Nusm@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okay, I'll give it a few and try again.

[–] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And you shouldn't choose an instance just because it is "the largest" ;-) A big problem from which the fediverse suffers at the moment

[–] Nusm@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I definitely understand, which is why I moved off of lemmy.world. But the other mbin instances are really small in terms of members, so that makes me nervous that they aren't going to be around long term. I get it, there's no guarantee with any instance, but one that has a miniscule number of users makes me gun shy.

[–] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well I can promise that my 2 instances will be around for a while :D That would be https://thebrainbin.org (English, stable) and https://gehirneimer.de (German, uses with some of the latest commits for testing)

[–] Nusm@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks for the offer, but I don’t think Kbin/mbin is for me. I signed up for a smaller mbin instance to give it a try. I realized that I would have to manually move all my communities over (which is too many to do), and that some of the ones I follow and are active in aren’t federated with mbin.