this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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Whatever happened to kbin -> mbin? That was another early threadiverse alternative, but I don't hear much about it anymore.
Mbin still exists https://fedidb.com/software/mbin
although the biggest instance, fedia.io, no longer allows anonymous viewing, which is kind of a shame
Thanks. I was wondering if mbin was still actively being used and developed.
looking at their Github they're still very active in development! If you want to follow their news !mbinReleases@gehirneimer.de
Cool, thanks!
Mbin is not as popular as Lemmy or Piefed, so nobody talks about it. Even before Piefed started being popular, Kbin was still not that popular compared to Lemmy in the past nor Piefed right now (might be an exaggeration).
With the Kbin lead dev, Ernest, not being active enough (due to medical reasons), the community forked Kbin, which is what we know today as Mbin.
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1383#issuecomment-1999046
https://lemmy.world/post/7125414
Thanks. I knew that kbin had been forked to mbin, but didn't know whether mbin development had continued after that.