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
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I mean, everyone’s using activity pub protocol tho. I think when activity pub starts getting fragmented is when it’s time to worry.
Yeah, this is what I was about to write. As long as they can all talk to each other, who cares? They used to be like a dozen popular email clients. It didn’t really create any issues (for the end user at least)
The issue is quality. 2 mediocre platforms is worse than 1 decent platform.
Over on mastodon, for example, there’s official mastodon … and then there’s a few forks of mastodon (eg glitch and hometown), pleroma and its fork akkoma, misskey and its forks sharkey, and firefish, and then forks of firefish, iceshrimp and catodon.
And yet there’s a good amount of conversation about how more platform diversity is needed to compete with mastodon. None of the above mentioned alternatives are especially stable, or perceived to be stable (firefish for instance was very popular in 2023 but has literally burnt to the ground with the main dev just abandoning it and the main instance), and so instance admins tend to be wary about running them and so they don’t get popular.
If half of the devs working on alternatives just banded together to make a compelling and stable and committed “alternative”, the fediverse would be in a better position.