00s enbodied in an instance. Sopuli even after the Great Migrations retains its vibes, slightly different than several fledditor Reddit clones, like the largest instances. I like that.

Misskey (and its forks) allows to pin posts of yours or other users to a Clip.

Mbin federates with Mastodon & co and allows to sort microblog posts like on Lemmy.

Huger than you think: this top 10 included Mastodon instances.

geddit.social was technically my first Lemmy instance (although I used /kbin earlier and more than this). Owned by Stux (mstdn.social, pixey.org, gram.social,…) but it was late for lemmy.world-like growth.

trivia: Stux tried also to make a /kbin instance, (along with other prominent Mastodon instance owners. Only Fedia.io, from infosec.exchange survived. Kudos for Jerry). He has called it forum.fail

For a brief moment it was one of 10 largest Fediverse instances by MAU. I dont’t remember now, if it was not larger than even lemmy.world

Pleroma (including Akkoma) is aimed at smaller instances, which don’t necessarily have enough popular local posts or followed accounts to make a sufficient number of reposts.

Local feed shows better how is instance like anyway.

Make an account on MBin instance and use Interstellar.

This is how an offtop category on ICD Forum looks like on PieFed. Yes, it’s in Polish

Yes, you want to sort posts on Discourse or NodeBB by Active. Check “View community on another server” ;)

If it federates to Mastodon, then it will federate to PieFed too.

Federation with PieFed worka fine.

One cannot go past hundreds, maybe few thousands MAU without a significant hype and mainstream attention.

Mastodon was the decentralised social network and main ex-Twitter alternative at the time. Misskey attracted Japanese artists from a specific theme , exiled by Twitter. Pixelfed benefitted with Instagram’s moderation drama and then with a Streisand effect. Its autor helped it with some marketing but this only helped with the migration wave, not caused it. Lemmy and /kbin grew on Reddit API debacle. PeerTube is one of self-hosting video solutions and a P2P video platform and a federated one. NodeBB and WordPress carried over their legacy user bases.

No other platform has more than several thousands MAU

MAU numbers for Misskey are underreported as many instances report it wrongly as 0.

Mobilizon does not count its instances’ MAU. Gancio has got no user accounts - events are published there anonymously and there is only one ActivityPub account to follow, which relays everything from the instance.

• Forum.linux.it from Italy, especially Assistenza Linux category,
• https://linux-nerds.org/ in German, but it is not active that much,
• Forum Internet, Czas Działać! from Poland, not specifically Linux, but rather software privacy and consumer rights (made by a privacy rights advocate organisation)

It was a great website. You could feel the fun of exploring everything together with hundreds of new users, from Lemmy communities to Mastodon toots with great threading of discussions. From custom magazine CSS to Collections (remade by PieFed as Feeds). A new, emergent website culture and the promise of later progress (we were meant later to have e.g. flairs (as Badges), and federation with Mobilizon).

You are seeing /kbin software as a Reddit alternative, but it could be more than that. I am aware of attempts of making, based on /kbin, a newsletter/blog platform (instead of Substack?) or a local social media website, as an alternative to Facebook local groups.

Mbin should still be able to view any post from subscribed blogs (be it from WriteFreely, WordPress, openwrite or Ghost), as a full article and the view of it should be very clean.

Did you mean Vivaldi? It features a sidebar already with their own Mastodon instance: Vivaldi Social featured as one of sidebar entries.

A Vivaldi account allows to use not only Vivaldi Social, but also to make a WordPress blog, with federation available too.

The platforms should provide inter-protocol bridging natively. Now we have to follow an unrelated (to either) account and hope that it not fails silently*. This should be a switch in the UI.

*at least one can follow bridged accounts from elsewhere without bridging oneself.

OP is on lemmy.world, and default feed is All (sorted by Active) there

kbin.social did lift off. Maybe even too much for this software at the time?

If Mbin is meant to be a “Lemmy and Mastodon client” alone, then it is a quirky Lemmy “app” and less responsive Mastodon “app”.

But it shines only when it scales. This, however needs more users taking use of eg. magazines’ custom CSS (and these don’t even federate!), keeping track on most popular Mastodon & co hashtags, adding these tags to Mbin magazines, following outside accounts to federate them to instance, etc…

All the Great Exodus fledditors, people craving for non-tankie Threadiverse service, and also curious fedinauts from outside made this happen on kbin.social, and this is what I loved in it the most.

Mbin happened when kbin.social was already crumbling, but many of its users (me included) still hoped for it. When kbin.social definitely collapsed, the previous kbinauts were already aware of not-tankie Lemmy instances, like sh.itjust.works (hosting MeanwhileOnGrad), sopuli.xyz, or generic lemmy.world.

Maybe the more aggresive Mbin marketing (have you seen the sidebar of this community - it still mentions “KBin”…) would help Mbin - but only at cost of making drama with existing kbinauts. With Lemmy’s toxicity problem being talked much recently (and instances being closed because of it) I am glad, that things did not go that way.

Some mobile apps support Mastodon and Bluesky at the same time - like SoraSNS or Openvibe