Try to avoid making an account on one of the main instances (fedia.io, kbin.earth, etc.). List of Mbin instances: ~~https://fedidb.org/software/mbin~~ https://joinmbin.org/servers

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I disagree. Mbin is so small at this point that going to fedia.io isn't even an issue.

As users pour in, over the millions, then they'll spread out. But for now, it's kind of like worrying that the town is getting too crowded because a 5th house was built, and the other town only has 2 houses.

[–] bacon_saber@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey! Not in my back yard!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

BACK yard??? Brother, you don't even WANT to know what happened in your FRONT yard!!!

[–] bacon_saber@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Seriously though, trying to understand a detail about how this all works (anyone free to answer). Does each additional user to a smaller instance indirectly help flesh out the available content on that user's instance?

As in, more total users -> more total community/magazine subs by those users --> more federated content becomes visible to the instance's newest joiners after that?

Unless I'm misunderstanding how it works. If that's correct, then the benefit of each additional user would be most visible the fewer the instance's current users, and then eventually level out as more users join and the most popular remote communities/magazines are subbed by local users.

I mention this because I've occasionally browsed other instances during brief outages on my home instance. At those times I noticed that while the default feeds (not logged in) across instances looked mostly the same, some of the smaller ones were missing some fun/interesting magazines that the others were showing.

P.S. I don't think this was due to defederations but who knows.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 month ago

Both sites are legit. https://fedidb.org/software/mbin is also fine if people want to use it. FediDB is created by Daniel (@dansup@pixelfed.social), he also created Pixelfed.

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When you filter the servers to open registration and up-to-date/not-abandoned, there's actually a really limited selection of Mbin servers left (5 total). So I don't think decentralization matters to much in this case. Those servers include: fedia.io, kbin.earth, kbin.melroy.org, moist.catsweat.com, and thebrainbin.org. There's also gehirneimer.de for German language.

You can see the full list here: joinmbin.org/servers

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

moist.catsweat.com???

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago

Hey, I didn't come up with it. You could ask @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com though.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 1 month ago

from the faq

Why 'moist'?! wtf is wrong with you?

It's comically unmarketable