Community-maintained Fediverse link aggregator combining Reddit-style communities with ActivityPub microblogging.
Each app below addresses a specific gap in Mbin's offering. We picked them based on real user review patterns and feature differentiation.
Lemmy is the most widely used federated link aggregator, with larger community sizes than Mbin. It uses ActivityPub and is compatible with Mbin communities.
Explore Lemmy data →Reddit remains the dominant link aggregator with billions of monthly visits, hundreds of thousands of active subreddits, and the deepest content archives.
Explore Reddit data →Mastodon overlaps with Mbin's microblogging features and federates via ActivityPub. Mastodon users can follow and interact with Mbin content directly.
Explore Mastodon data →Bluesky is a more polished and growing decentralized platform using a different protocol than Mbin. It is more Twitter-like and less Reddit-like in format.
Explore Bluesky data →Tildes is a centralized, invite-only discussion community with no advertising. Focused on thoughtful discussion over viral content but without federation.
Explore Tildes data →Hacker News is the most respected technology link aggregator, with a heavily curated audience of developers and entrepreneurs.
Explore Hacker News data →Mbin is actively developed as an open-source project and continues to grow as the primary successor to Kbin in the Fediverse ecosystem.
Kbin, the original project, became largely inactive in 2024 due to reduced maintainer activity. Mbin is the actively maintained community fork that continues Kbin's development.
Yes. Both Mbin and Lemmy use ActivityPub, so users on Mbin instances can subscribe to Lemmy communities and vice versa.
Magazines are the Mbin equivalent of subreddits or Lemmy communities — topic-based spaces where users submit links, posts, and discussions.
App Vulture tracks social and community apps including Fediverse platforms, monitoring development activity and engagement to identify which projects are actively maintained.
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