It has an excellent web layout/app (Interstellar) and has Mastodon baked in along with Lemmy. It's a very elegant catch all piece of fediverse software.

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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 "microblogs" of mbin as a "nice to have" but unnecessary functionality. Did it actually lift off?

[–] MBM 2 points 1 day ago

Mastodon also has hashtags and guppe groups, which kind of blur the line

[–] Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

kbin.social did lift off. Maybe even too much for this software at the time?

[–] dudenas@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day 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?

[–] moonlight@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

This isn't really accurate. Mbin does what Lemmy and Piefed do (Reddit replacement) plus what Mastodon does (twitter replacement). They're just in different tabs of the interface. You have the option of microblogging if you want, but threads are still pretty much exactly the same compared to Lemmy or Piefed.