Pixelfed: "groups" are coming and they will be compatible with Lemmy (who knows if they will also be compatible with Friendica)

TheFederatedPipe , 2 months ago to Fediverse in Just curious

That's similar to want #Mbin does.

BentiGorlich , 5 months ago to Fediverse in How to deal with spam magazines?

there is !AskMbin@thebrainbin and also the matrix chat: https://matrix.to/#/#mbin:melroy.org if you need mbin specific help in the future :)

melroy , 7 months ago to Fediverse in Mbin instances

I'm part of the Mbin team (and created the fork), why are you calling us dickheads? You don't even know the dev team. You don't even know me.

If you want to join Mbin you can just join a Mbin server. If you want to join the community and help out, join the Matrix chat. I don't understand where all the fuzz is about.

BentiGorlich is also part of the Mbin team (thank you!), and he is also tired about all the negative talking about us, without any foundation of truth.

melroy , 7 months ago to Fediverse in Mbin instances

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.

melroy , 7 months ago to Fediverse in Mbin instances

yeh I agree, the hyperlinks needs more contrast. And also on the homepage the sub-title "A federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform (By the community, for the community)", can also have more contrast.

I also believe the text (especially headings maybe) can use a more bolder text. jwr1 Try to set font-weight of 400 on the .font-extralight CSS class instead of 200.

Aatube if you want to share your problems in more details, please help us out you can join the issue chat on Matrix if you like. And ideally share some screenshots if that would help to explain the problem. Another approach is to create an issue at GitHub (which does require a GitHub account): https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin-website/issues/new

Or explain the situation here in this thread in more detail is also possible, but that is up to you.

melroy , 7 months ago to Fediverse in Mbin instances

It's most like a Mbin thing. But if you want to give constructive feedback, please let us know via our chat or issue ticket. And show the issues you have with screenshots.

melroy , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Fediverse in Firefish is entering maintenance mode

Great question! I never shared this story. I can only answer this from my own perspective and NOT on behalf of the entire project or other devs if you can imagine. And you're correct every open-source project can have this similar situation.

1. I try to make Mbin as decentralized as possible in terms of development, contributors and no single-maintainer. I hopefully advise that by putting time and effort in writing out the C4 specification: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/blob/main/C4.md. This means that every contributor can become a maintainer. So even today, I'm not the only maintainer and hopefully I will never be the only maintainer. And this goes as far as full access on the git repo(s) as well as Matrix chats.
2. Recently, a very dedicated contributor did left Mbin sadly without any announcement. This person is still being missed to this day (I hope he is doing well in RL). So bad things do happen, at the same time I hope we as a project will also attract new developers and contributors (even documentation, translation or picking up a simple UI change can already help a lot and often that is the best way to getting started).
3. I believe it's important to also take some time off. Like in the recent holiday period I forced myself to take some time off. Even then, I also do feel the pressure sometimes. At the same time; nobody is actually pressuring me. Crazy right?. Nobody is paying me to contribute to Mbin. And nobody expect me to spend time on it daily. So it's important to be aware of this situation and know it's mainly in your own head, sometimes just let it go... But you're right, you do feel a kind of obligation.
4. I also asked among the contributors if you should accept any form of money or NLnet funding or anything in that regard. Our common conclusion was: NO. Because we are doing it for fun, asking money will only create a situation were you might even feel more obligated.
5. Luckily the state of Mbin is also getting better and better over time. I'm really glad about that. In the past year we really focused on stability and scalability. Mbin also inherited a lot of issues from /kbin to be honest, and we really did some major overhauls to get the stability we and the server admins want and need (thank you all for this!). I can say that we are now in a good spot at the moment, Hopefully we also stay focused on the quality of the code, so the project will still be alive for years to come. Since nothing is worse then inheriting technical dept on top of a huge pile of issues, that is no fun.
6. Developing software for the fediverse is in general quite demanding work, no doubt about that. On top of the social media drama that often also happens. So the most important part of each open-source project is the community, the people, the interactions we have. The jokes we sometimes make. I can't thank the community enough and in the end we are all part of the fediverse community, so only we can make it fun and lead by example.

~Melroy

#mbin #firefish #kbin #activitypub #developers #developers #developers #fediverse

melroy , 7 months ago to Linux in PSA: /c/linux has a matrix chat!

I created the fork, so if you have any follow-up question, just let me know ;)

EDIT: Mbin also has a Matrix space, while we at here: https://matrix.to/#/#mbin:melroy.org

Fitik , 7 months ago to Fediverse in [Mbin] Interstellar v0.6.0 update: push notifications, link panel with alt. sources, mag. owner panel and mod actions, new theming options, and more - Interstellar App - kbin.earth

I just want to note that Interstellar supports #Lemmy as well, even tho #Mbin is it's main focus

jay , 8 months ago to Fediverse in A sad story... Follow a lemmy user

I had originally hoped to use my Mastodon account to follow Lemmy communities but the fact that every single comment on a post pops up in my feed made it... just really unusable. Really happy with using #mbin for Lemmy though and keeping my Mastodon and Mbin separate.