cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/4735963
Learned about this fork from a post about a potential shutdown of Fedia.io, a Kbin instance.
https://lemmy.world/post/6797580
As you can see in the comments, https://kbin.run/ already moved to Mbin.
Interesting to see if that can help with the development of new features compared to kbin being managed mostly by the main developer.
Thanks for the explanation. Since KBin is more fragmented and does not build up enough steam for further development, it’s maybe a better option to move to Lemmy at this point.
Lemmy is also kind of struggling to get contributors onboard due to Rust not being that popular for Web.
Maybe mbin will become a viable equivalent just by having more contributors. Let’s see
I wonder if a platform that’s using more enterprise-y components would make things easier to onboard contribs? Java/Kotlin in Spring Boot w/React?
With the right contribution guidelines and solid PR pipelines to ensure code quality, it seems like pretty much any engineer could hop in and start developing. Especially if local resources like containers could be leveraged to allow rapid development.
That could work. I’m always surprised that with 30k monthly active users, most of them tech people, there’s not a few Java dev who started a project