I’ll say within the past few months there hasn’t been as much activity as there usually has been, so there’s not like a lot of new features coming in like there is for PieFed. Part of that is likely due to the fact that Mbin’s low on devs ATM, especially since one of the previous devs went AWOL. Still, I’ll say Mbin is already quite polished and works well, even if the dev team isn’t as active as they once were.

Luckily, I was able to mitigate it within the week it started, by setting up specific Cloudflare firewall rules. I just haven’t remembered to downgrade the server since it happened :)

The experience for setting up an Mbin server has greatly improved with the latest Docker setup rework. So now, it shouldn’t take more than a few minutes to get a simple Mbin setup running.

As for resource usage, my server (kbin.earth) doesn’t have anywhere close to the user base fedia.io does, but I’ve been able to run my server (which has ~150 active and ~600 total users) on a decently low-resource server. In the past month or so, it’s been a server with 16 vCPUs and 32 GB RAM, but previously it was running on 8 vCPUs and 16 GB RAM (had to upgrade due to DDOS).

I’ve been running my server for about 1.5 years (since December 2023), and most of the time it is a set-and-forget type of thing, of course, until you need to update things or troubleshoot some issue. But overall, it’s been working great, and when you do run into an issue, the Mbin devs are usually quick to help troubleshoot with you.

It is true that Mbin doesn’t have an “official” instance, but there are multiple servers that are run by the Mbin devs, including thebrainbin.org, gehirneimer.de, and kbin.melroy.org (and kbin.earth if you count me).

Well, sorry about that again. Really Lemmy should have never let it happen though.

Oh lol, is that still a problem?

Oh, never mind, I just saw their comment about the API being enabled, so the app should work with piefed.blahaj.zone.

I’ll just mention, in case it’s not apparent, Interstellar (the app) does support swipe gestures on posts and comments; you just need to enable them in the settings. I do realize the Blahaj PieFed instance hasn’t even enabled the API, so the app wouldn’t work with piefed.blahaj.zone yet.

BTW, I like your username :)

Unfortunately, it’s not that easy on the fediverse. My instance, kbin.earth, still has the original image, and I’m guessing mine’s not the only one. Once something’s published to the fediverse, there’s no going back :)

Happy cake day!

@[email protected] Yes, that is correct. There’s no way to register for an account through the app ATM. You’ll just have to do so through the website.

Yeah, the Mbin community, matrix, or GitHub works. You can see the support channel links listed at the bottom of our landing page.

Yeah sorry, I’m guessing Flutter (Interstellar’s UI framework) doesn’t support devices that old.

shows the wrong profile name for me

What do mean by wrong profile name? You went into your account overview and it showed a different username from the one you were signed in to?

post with 120+ comments it only shows me five

I’m looking into this as we speak.

Please bear with us, as the PieFed API has literally just been enabled mainstream. The only PieFed user base we’ve had up until now was in a testing environment.

Commenting should be working.

To add, I’ve been using micro lately.

I think there’s some sort of DDOS attack going around because I’ve been in the same boat with kbin.earth slowing down. kbin.earth’s traffic has nearly doubled in just the past few days and I’m still trying to figure out the source.

Writing this message on the interstellar app just now. My only minor gripe is that there’s no way to mark something as read with a single tap that I’ve found. (Got to long press and mark as read, but I’ll accept that I may have missed something)

I’ll give a quick overview: to mark a post as read, you need to either open it, vote on it, boost it, or mark it as read explicitly, which can be done through the overflow menu (long press or tap overflow button, like you said) or by configuring the swipe gestures to have the mark as read action (then all you have to do is swipe on the post). In the next update, we will also have a “mark as read on scroll” option, which, when enabled, will mark all posts in your feed as read once it scrolls off the top of the screen.

You actually can remove the guest kbin.earth account, you just have to add a different account and switch to it first.

Lol, that’s insane. I hope everybody saves their money for better things.

How do you update without any downtime? Is it because you have multiple servers running?