Mbin is still going strong. We're just not big.

I thought that things like combining comments across all cross-posts, categories of communities, user-customizeable and shareable feeds, ability to block all users from an instance, etc. were not supported yet.

Perhaps "minimal" is the wrong word though: maybe "basic" would have worked better, with most of PieFed's most well-known and touted features not having been included yet, unless I missed it and they are now?

Kbin is dead. Hopefully Ernst is himself not physically dead, but has stopped contributing. It was quite the fiasco as Kbin.social had to be defederated from since it was sitting un-administered and thus being used to spread spam across the entire Threadiverse.

Kbin's fork Mbin is still going strong, though with fewer users as time passes. There is even an app for it now: Interstellar.

It serves a very niche area though, where you want to interact with both the microblogging style Mastodon on the Fediverse and also Lemmy+PieFed on the Threadiverse (with newer additions being added e.g. nodeBB and flarum) using the same account rather than dedicated ones for each platform. Personally I feel like the UI is too geared towards the former and ignores what is much more commonly observed in the letter. Plus it follows Ernst's trends to rename every little thing where e.g. downvotes are "reduces", except it's more complicated than that bc downvotes themselves still exist - except they don't, in that they don't affect the sorting (or maybe that was the reduces?) - plus they are now publicly visible, except again they are not (actually "boosts" are, reduces are not, and I forget whether they are or not for up and downvotes).

Even at its peak it never topped 1k monthly active users (according to this site), so compared to Lemmy's ~35k the ~0.7k users of Mbin are practically unnoticeable.

PieFed is the new hot thing, with many features that Lemmy lacks, and some even that Reddit itself does not have. It is still being polished but its pace of development is extremely fast!

Is the irony of you being so toxic being evidence of my point completely lost on you or are you leaning too far into trolling?

IIRC most of those things are available in the API, now it's on the app devs to support them in their apps.

Oh wow I definitely missed that announcement, that seems major news that the API has improved that much!! (Especially in so short a time)

https://crust.piefed.social/api/alpha/swagger shows indeed "list of feeds" and "list of topics"

Bots and bootlickers. Bots and bootlickers everywhere!

It's also became way too fucking political

Oh but that's 1.4 alpha, while PieFed.world is still on v1.1.5-10-g927213a1 - it's not only waiting on app devs! Plus I could understand if app devs wanted to wait for more than read-only access to such information. Anyway it's progressing forward quickly and that's appreciated!

And I hope that the webpage method of access does not get forgotten as well, as sometimes seemed the case with Lemmy where so many apps would have features that the basic UI lacked.

Right now on PieFed the too-wide comment boxes still breaks the entire page sometimes (like the top bar won't even render) and the Preview ability is still hit or miss - e.g. I noticed while editing a comment yesterday that I could not preview how it was going to render, from a desktop browser. So I hope the standard web UI continues to be shown care and attention and becomes more polished.

What's a downvote?

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I can't even see downvotes

Bring back people getting excited about stuff

Have you not seen the posts about Valve's new Steam hardware? Excitement everywhere!

Piefed.world seems lagging behind, I asked the admins yesterday when they planned to update, no answer yet.

Rimu just announced a new feature in the 1.4 API: https://piefed.zip/c/piefed_api/p/684281/poll-and-event-posts-in-the-api#post_replies

I noticed while editing a comment yesterday that I could not preview how it was going to render, from a desktop browser.

Please report those bugs on !piefed_help@piefed.social

Isn't it great you can just open up a log that lets you delegitimize the concerns of others?

You mean isn't it great that there's a log that lets everyone publicly tell when someone is lying about why they were banned or if the mods/admins really are being terrible?

That sounds like LemmyNSFW

Your point was about brigading, not about toxicity.

Is the irony of you being too sensitive about my disagreeing with you evidence of my point being completely lost on you?

There's another one, what's it called when you've got some little plastic bricks? Hmmmm.... Ah! !lego@piefed.social that's it!!

Even if its displayed it's not tracked here, and with federation even if it were tracked it'd be useless/out of date.

It's even more meaningless than the other site and every time I see someone talking about it I want to tell them to go back there if internet points mean so much.

Ha ha ha, definitely!