I actually started on Kbin.social, but then it got shut down, Kbin died and now fedia.io seems to be the largest one running MBin. I like the interface on MBin and I guess it's good to have a diverse fediverse with different services, but at the same time, why use mbin when everyone congregates on lemmy instances? The local magazines on fedia are for the most part, quite dead, when compared to lemmy collections. In the end I feel like there aren't enough people to go around to support many more services like MBin and Piefed.

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

What ultimately caused kbin to shut down?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

Single developer prioritised his life over supporting an increasingly complex project, I think

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

He had some health issues iirc, and frankly people got really pushy about a thing they don't even pay for. I don't blame him for stopping development.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What I saw over there was a large portion of his community pleading with him to delegate administrative tasks to the community, as it became increasingly clear the website was becoming too much for a single guy to manage (he was the only moderator of like 30+ communities that were full to bursting with spam, as well as the sole site admin). He never approved the many applications to help moderate, and said he was extremely slow to trust others, so never appointed a second admin, and instead just continued to silently work on the codebase as the site became unusable from spam.

I think his extreme distrust and desire to do everything himself combined with his medical issues led to extreme burnout, and ultimately its downfall.

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