I think a lot of artists are on https://mastodon.art

Just for the people interested in mbin, here are a few magazine/community pointers:

• !mbinReleases@gehirneimer.de
• !updates@kbin.melroy.org
• !mbinmeta@gehirneimer.de

I am part of the mbin team and I am really tired of hearing shittalking about us without any reason. Nobody has any reason to call us anything but passionate.

When melroy started the fork, really weird accusations were thrown around without being based on anything…

AP has a tool for that called inbox forwarding and mastodon uses it for sharing the comments under posts. It works like this: you send a reply to a user with their follower collection as the recipient. You of course cannot know who is following that user, however they than just forward this reply to the follower collection, because the server knows that it has authority over that collection. https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#inbox-forwarding

Its not really a “not playing well” with each other, it is just the mastodon works. That is the reason why most toots in my mastodon timeline have 0 favourites (upvotes) and only a few boosts… I don’t know why they do it, because at the minimum the followers of that user should be notified about that like…

I promise that I will never just suddenly vanish unless I actually die 😅

I actually have a LiberaPay, Patreon and Kofi page and only 3 people have donated so far. And those accounts are also used to take donations for my 2 mbin servers and my mid sized mastodon server (>100 “real” MAU)…

Your already helping a lot by helping other admins ❤️

I think we are getting there. Currently the biggest problem I see is that melroy and I are currently the main contributors with other experienced contributors gone or at least not regularly active (which is of course their right, but its just how it is). I do have a whole lot of ideas and plans for features and I am working on a lot simultaneously, though I wouldn’t say that it is a burden, more like a fun hobby. Admittedly this hobby takes a lot of time though 😅

I am very happy that new contributors are currently dipping their toe in the water and I hope they do stick around. Also a lot of the server admins are active in the matrix chat to help others out. So in this regard we are not alone.

I was honestly shocked that debounced left so suddenly and basically completely vanished… I didn’t think that anyone would do that… So honestly we cannot promise anything, but I think melroy will stay around and I certainly will as well 😇

I had the exact same problem and the solution was to ask my ISP who then either just gave me a public IP (Vodafone) or asked for money so my network could be reached from the outside (Primerocom). So check whether there is an option with you ISP to get a “public” IP.

Oh that is unfortunate

In this list it doesn’t seem like it: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

The same can be said about gmail and it is the same kind of problem here. Yes lemmy.world is not a profit orient it giant, but it is still a problem when one actor has this power over a federated network. (the scale of the problem is of course a lot larger with gmail)

I mean the first problem went away when I sorted the communities by active users, though the second one got way worse with it XD

My guess is that they just needed to have their own community for a lot of stuff because so many instances are defederated from them. Though I am not sure…

Maybe in the future. Currently so few people are using mbin that I doubt it would be any substantial amount. It also creates a lot more work when doing your taxes. So yeah if mbin gets a user base like lemmy currently has this would be another story. But it does not and it does not look like we will be there any time soon

We do not have a “project fund” or something like that. Some of us have donation sites to keep the servers running:

• mine: https://liberapay.com/BentiGorlich
• @debounced@kbin.run https://kbin.run/about
• @melroy@kbin.melroy.org https://melroy.org/thanks.html

My opinion: I do not want to get paid to develop mbin. That creates an obligation and turns it into something like a job. I already have a job and intend to keep it, additionally I don’t want to take the fun out of developing mbin. To commit to it full time or apply for grants or anything would currently be a big mistake I think

That was the message that was pushed out when @melroy@kbin.melroy.org started the fork, because a lot of people were not particularly fond of the way he did it. We were trash talked a lot in the first months and obviously (and sadly) that kinda stuck on a lot of people.

Mbin isn’t making any drastic changes

UI wise, that one is definitely true

and relying mostly on Kbin’s existing code as its base

This one most certainly not. We actually stopped porting kbin code a few months into the project, because it just was too much work and it was obvious that Ernest didn’t want us to. So everything which changed on mbin in the about 8-10 months since, was purely our own work. Of course the basis will always be kbin, but the form will most likely change

We’ve been keeping the UI mostly as is, because we all like it, however on the backend site of it a lot has changed. The biggest problems kbin had were compatibility wise (federation) and scaling wise. These were the points where we made huge changes. The federation compatibility has improved a lot (yes there is still a lot to do) and scaling/performance has also improved a ton.

The biggest UI changes we made are:

• new filter designs that work for threads as well as microblogs
• a subscription panel
• a usable instance wide modlog
• a cake day display
• and more stuff that I am forgetting at the moment (it’s been a while since I looked at kbin and I am mostly a backend dev)

The backend changes we improved are (imo) more impactful:

• (next release) direct messages are federating
• (next release) pins federate
• deleting users federate
• magazine descriptions are federating correctly
• mods federate
• reports federate
• incoming likes are working
• the “hot” sort actually makes sense with lemmy content because it also looks at upvotes and not just at boosts
• completely redone the hashtag system so it scales at all
• completely redone the background worker system so it scales better (partly next release)

And these are only the changes I could think of in 5 minutes. We likely changed a lot more things, which I just forgot.

I mean I’ve been running the setup this way for >4 years and never had any problem with the USB connection, so I cannot attest to “usb connections are quite unstable”…