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What Fediverse services do you use? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57576884

There's so many ways to interact with the Fediverse. The most popular, by far, seems to be Mastodon, but Lemmy, Misskey, and Pixelfed are also relatively popular. Kbin used to be popular, but it has apparently been abandoned, and is mostly dead at this point.

I recently learned that Mbin is a thing, checked it out, and it looked really cool! Has anyone used it? How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.

What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?

For me, it's mostly Lemmy, though I do hop on Mastodon every now and then.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

I'm an Mbin user.

Mbin is a fork of kbin. Kbin's dev didn't really trust people much, so he wanted to have sole control over what code gets added to kbin. Which led to issues when he wasn't available and development just came to a halt for months because no one could accept changes anymore. The other devs wanted more control so they could actually get shit done, so they decided to fork the project instead.

How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.

I think the biggest difference is really the fact that you can subscribe to not just communities but also users. This is where the superior Mastodon compatibility comes into play by allowing us to see posts that don't mention communities. Lemmy only sees Mastodon posts if they mention a community explicitly or an Mbin user has interacted with it.

There's also other stuff like public upvotes, boosting, tags, reputation (karma), and custom community CSS. I don't really know Lemmy well enough to give a full list of where they differ.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

I’m an Mbin user.

The Fediverse is pretty cool... Hello, Mbin user!

you can subscribe to not just communities but also users.

Oh, that's interesting.

Not sure what the point of public upvotes is, or what boosting is, but tags and custom CSS sounds cool. How's my Mbin karma?! IDK if that's how it works... I've signed up on your same instance, I'll see how it goes.

Thank you for your comment!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How's my Mbin karma

A screenshot It's 2500~, but it doesn't affect anything on Mbin, so there's no point worrying about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks! Yeah, I have no idea how that's even calculated or whatever so... If it doesn't even affect anything, I don't see why I would care lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's basically the same as Reddit karma, it's just the sum of upvotes+downvotes you got

If it doesn't even affect anything, I don't see why I would care lol

Same, idc, but some people care about it. Also piefed cares, I think it puts a red icon in the username of the users with negative reputation and their posts start with 0 upvotes instead of 1. (If I'm not mistaken)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's basically the same as Reddit karma, it's just the sum of upvotes+downvotes you got