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
The big question…
Do any of the apps work with it? I’m using Voyager right now, and this is a dealbreaker for me if it doesn’t. (I’m assuming the answer is no, but I thought I would ask.)
There Matrix discussion forum may be best place to ask - https://matrix.to/#/#mbin:melroy.org
Could you be more specific about which ones? I tried to log in to fedia.io in Voyager, and it wouldn't connect.
Yes, sorry, I didn't realize that when I replied. Unfortunately I'm on iOS, and Interstellar is only for Android/Linux right now.
Both kbin and mbin function very well as progressive web apps, and shouldn't /require/ a discreet app like, imo, lemmy does.
Gotcha. I'm not a huge fan of PWAs when it comes to Lemmy/kbin/mbin, but I'm willing to give it a try.