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
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From what I recall: the kbin main dev had some personal stuff going on and didn’t do a lot of maintenance for a while (which is perfectly acceptable, of course). Unfortunately, this coincided with a new peak of users switching over from Reddit, so there were quite a few new fediverse users and server admins who ran into issues.
With the person who could approve new releases (and would normally also review most of the code) gone, making a fork was the right move at the time. Of course, if the projects want, they could merge back together again, but it’s possible there’s more going on, like different visions on the future of the project.