Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source alternative to other link aggregator services like Reddit. The initiative aims to promote a free and open internet.

Mbin is focused on what the community wants, pull requests can be merged by any repo owner (with merge rights in GitHub). Discussions take place on Matrix then consensus has to be reached by the community. If approved by the community, only one approval on the PR is required by one of the Mbin maintainers. It’s built entirely on trust.

It seems it’s claim to fame is being more open and accepting of community changes and improvements. It can install as either bare metal/VM or as a Docker container.

Although anyone can install it and self-host it, their project page also contains a link to various instances that already exist and which anyone can register on.

See https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

#technology #opensource #Fediverse #linkaggregator #decentralised

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    112·
    10 months ago

    some notes:

    • exposes reputation/karma points in profiles ( i know some lemmy users are looking for this)
    • does not federate downvotes (maybe someday!)
    • i would recommend >=8GB of ram (4 is just too close to minimum)
    • processing sensitive to external instances… lemmy.ml knocked me over for a minute when it came back up due to my low processing resources.

    https://moist.catsweat.com

    • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
      71·
      10 months ago

      I don’t think karma should ever be visible for any reason and downvotes should be disabled. But I know that is not a very popular opinion. “Karma” should only be in the background, and for the purposes of moderation/admin needs (such as thresholds). Downvotes invariably become disagree buttons, and net karma doesn’t really mean anything other than someone has been on a long time.

        • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
          41·
          10 months ago

          Yeah I think that’s definitely something beehaw gets right. It noticeably alters the tone of conversations when people can’t just downvote everything they don’t like. Kbin’s making votes public I think helps somewhat though.