Quick question, I’m looking to make an Mbin account and just wanted to ask if there is any lemmy.ml type of situation to be aware of.
Quick question, I’m looking to make an Mbin account and just wanted to ask if there is any lemmy.ml type of situation to be aware of.
What exactly happened for the name to be changed from Kbin to Mbin? I missed that plot point.
Like people already mentioned below, a fork was created after kbin development halted. And the project maintainer was absent but at the same time didn’t delegated the work fully. Hence the creation of the fork: Mbin.
I wasn’t creative, so the M in Mbin stands for my name: Melroy. xd
Mbin is a community fork of Kbin. Even while Kbin was still a thing it was already much faster in making changes & additions than Kbin and by now Kbin & Kbin.social is basically dead.
This is indeed all true. Mbin is named after Melroy (I know, I wasn’t creative). And by introducing the C4 spec, I made sure the project isn’t in hands by a single maintainer and multiple people are already and can become full maintainers of the Mbin project. Hence the reason I also describe it as: “By community, for the community”.
We welcome any developer to join us and help if you would like to contribute (in any way or form you like). You can find us at Matrix chat.
Mbin is a fork of Kbin. A lot of users have moved from Kbin instances to Mbin, as the Kbin dev has had some personal life issues that have interfered with his ability to reliably work on the project.
Mbin is a fork that was startend to add some stuff the original Kbin dev didn’t like. These days it seems Kbin is dead though, so basically Mbin is the new Kbin.