I actually started on Kbin.social, but then it got shut down, Kbin died and now fedia.io seems to be the largest one running MBin. I like the interface on MBin and I guess it’s good to have a diverse fediverse with different services, but at the same time, why use mbin when everyone congregates on lemmy instances? The local magazines on fedia are for the most part, quite dead, when compared to lemmy collections. In the end I feel like there aren’t enough people to go around to support many more services like MBin and Piefed.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    0·
    9 months ago

    the interface to all the exact same content, as you point out, is better.

    why would i use an incredibly shitty interface that almost requires the use of an app, when i can access 100% of lemmy from mbin?

    this whole ‘lemmy-centric’ view you have of the fediverse is archaic. you need to think bigger.

    the whole point of the fediverse is access to all the content from your interface of choice… and youre asking ‘why choose the better interface?’

      • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        I love the front-ends as well but it feels like every Lemmy update breaks something there. Alexandrite still hasn’t updated to 0.19.5 (since most instances are still on 0.19.3 due to image caching issues), and upvotes/downvotes still don’t show up in my instance.

        • Xylight@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Photon is available for any instance at https://phtn.app.

          Alexandrite is available for any instance at https://alexandrite.app.

          I don’t like when instances will host photon for anything other than the default interface, as then it’s just a more limited, outdated version of photon and another point of failure.

    • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Everything you listed is opinions and he is asking for actual reasons to use it.

      To op:

      There is no benefit to either. Test out a few frontends and choose the one you like the most. The differences are minimal.