• Cricket@lemmy.zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    Though it is a bit opinionated, it’s good to have another alternative in the threadiverse.

    Whatever happened to kbin -> mbin? That was another early threadiverse alternative, but I don’t hear much about it anymore.

    • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Mbin is not as popular as Lemmy or Piefed, so nobody talks about it. Even before Piefed started being popular, Kbin was still not that popular compared to Lemmy in the past nor Piefed right now.

      With the Kbin lead dev not being active enough (due to medical reasons), the community forked Kbin, which is what we know today as Mbin.

      Unfortunately, Kbin’s extremely slow development and Mbin coming a bit too late hurt the userbase a lot and it got fragmented as a result. Some moved to Mbin, some to Lemmy or Piefed and some probably even left the Fediverse altogether.

      • Cricket@lemmy.zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Thanks. I knew that kbin had been forked to mbin, but didn’t know whether mbin development had continued after that.