Post #2123983

2026-05-04 18:03 UTC

> but the guy who was mostly responsible for it is a bit of a twat and mostly used it to pimp Monero Oh damn, I missed that bit if fedi drama. Is there a writeup of what happened anywhere?

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@Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 2026-05-04 18:38

Without his twattiness there would be no Mbin. And a legacy of /kbin would likely be as forgotten as e.g. Prismo... The fork happened when Ernest was already struggling with his commitments in firefighting on emerging kbin.social technical issues, developing things which would prevent these issues to happen again, refactoring the code, likely work and life and - as a nail to the coffin - some health problems. Forking out of project leader during his troubles couldn't not look like a some kind of backstab. However, Ernest, in a typically Polish way, has never trusted anybody else enough to enable one to develop /kbin further. This circumstances of the forking are the crux of this drama. Melroy technically initiated the forking of Mbin, but the project itself embraces [C4](https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/blob/main/C4.md) and has got **no (benevolent or not) dictators**. Neither of largest Mbin instances are operated by maintainters of Mbin. I liked /kbin more than Mbin, but the former eventually collapsed. You still will be able to **follow people from e.g. Mastodon or Misskey and sort their posts like on Lemmy**. Or **subscribe/follow to any Ghost/WriteFreely/any federated WordPress blog and benefit from probably the best interface to read long forms on federation**.

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@WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-04 19:43

I dunno. I just noticed it as it was happening.

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