Comment on Why isn't Mbin more popular?
Kirk@startrek.website 2 days ago
Lemmy and Piefed are much more 1:1 reddit replacements. Mbin is it’s own thing, which is very high quality, but has less out of the box appeal to someone looking for “fediverse reddit”.
dudenas@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Mastodon (and others a la twitter) is actor-centric, where focus is on people.
Lemmy (and others a la reddit) is topic-centric, where focus is on common interests.
These two are very different approaches that I can hardly see mixing well. I thought of “magazines” of mbin as a “nice to have” but unnecessary functionality. Did it actually lift off?
dudenas@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Started to argue with myself: if the concepts of following people and topics did not mix well, how could fb reach a couple bilion users? I myself silently hope for Bonfire to succeed, even after seeing Friendica, Hubzilla and almost forgotten Diaspora. Maybe it just wasnt done rght in FOSS so far?
MBM@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Mastodon also has hashtags and guppe groups, which kind of blur the line
Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 2 days ago
kbin.social did lift off. Maybe even too much for this software at the time?