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.

  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    I prefer being on instances with fewer users anyway - it feels a bit more personal. So more users on the larger Lemmy instances is not really an argument in my book.

    I like the user experience on Lemmy and Mbin more. Another thing I like about Mbin is being able to boost posts and interact with the greater Fediverse more.

    I like the performance of PieFed. It also works without JavaScript, which is nice some times.

    What I like about this place is that we can all be on different platforms if we want to - there’s no such thing as there not being enough people around to support all the platforms, as they’re not competing for users. I’m happy whatever platform the people I interact with use - the important thing is that I can interact with them. :)

    • monobotEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Thank you for mentioning Pie Fed, I neverd heard of it until now, but looks great. Clean code, intro video for developers, db structure exolained. Really friendly for new contributors, quite refreshing.

      • cabbage@piefed.social
        6·
        3 months ago

        I really like the user experience as well, and @rimu@piefed.social is great at including the community in its development and keeping an open dialogue. It’s a great project.