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Yeah I know lemmy, piefed, and mbin are all seperate, app, software, techno beeple boops, whatever.. that they’re all different thing but communicate with each other. De duplication sounds really nice, and as a comment section lurker the aggregation of cross posts like another comment and you said sounds really nice. All the QoL stuff sounds pretty neato.
One thing I did say in my other comment is I like lemm.ee admins federation policy of block the spam and illegal instances and letting me block NSFW and bots
I also remember hearing about the Mbin version when the Kbin dev fell off the face of the earth and meaning to check it out (I’m sure you can guess how that went) mind telling me about that. Again like piefed all ik is it’s a separate platform that can view lemmy content
Ah, right. I was talking more from a broader software perspective rather than individual instances; I'm not sure what individual instances' federation policies are like. Probably the big three that people want to know about most of the time are
lemmy.ml
,lemmygrad.ml
andhexbear.net
. I know the mainline instancepiefed.social
allows the first one but blocks the other two, so that probably extends a bit further than what you're looking for. I'm not sure if there are any other instances that have looser federation settings.I'd say the most significant feature Mbin has over Lemmy is microblog support. You can switch between threads (Lemmy/Reddit-style) and microblogs (Mastodon/Twitter-style) and post or read from both "sides" of the fediverse. If you have people you're interested in following but don't want to set up a whole Mastodon account, etc., Mbin allows you to do that. For example, I follow a couple of celebrities with fediverse accounts, some software developers (web browsers, games, emulators) and a few friends who post.
The other big thing Mbin has currently is that it automatically translates remote links to their local equivalent. I'm on
fedia.io
but if somebody from a foreign instance or even foreign software links to a post on their server, Mbin will link me to the local version instead so that I can immediately vote and reply, without having to track it down manually.Something big that Mbin is lacking currently is the ability to block instances you don't like. You can block individual users or communities, but if there's an entire instance you want to get rid of, your only option is to petition the instance administrators to defederate from it. Since that's an important feature for you, I don't think Mbin is right for you, at least until that feature (which is planned) gets added.
I might try out Mbin tho thanks for the write up!
Yeah as for the instance blocking tho I’ll manage, I can probably just block all the political communities