Mbin

Mbin is a fork of /kbin, community-focused. Feel free to discuss on Matrix and to create Pull Requests.

Important

Mbin is focused on what the community wants, pull requests can be merged by any repo maintainer (with merge rights in GitHub). Discussions take place on Matrix then consensus has to be reached by the community. If approved by the community, only one approval on the PR is required by one of the Mbin maintainers. It's built entirely on trust.

Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. The initiative aims to promote a free and open internet.

Unique Features of Mbin for server owners & users alike:

• Tons of GUI improvements
• A lot of enhancements
• Various bug fixes
• Support of all ActivityPub Actor Types (including also "Service" account support; thus support for robot accounts)
• Up-to-date PHP packages and security/vulnerability issues fixed
• Support for application/json Accept request header on all ActivityPub end-points
• Introducing a hosted documentation: docs.joinmbin.org

See also: all merged PRs or our releases.

For developers:

• Improved bare metal/VM guide and Docker guide
• Improved Docker setup
• Developer server explained (see Development Server documentation here )
• GitHub Security advisories, vulnerability reporting, Dependabot and Advanced code scanning enabled. And we run composer audit.
• Improved code documentation
• Tight integration with Mbin Weblate project for translations (Two way sync)
• Last but not least, a community-focus project embracing the Collective Code Construction Contract (C4). No single maintainer.

Instances

• List of instances
• Alternative list of instances at fedidb.org
• Alternative list of instances at fediverse.observer

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Contributing

• Official repository on GitHub
• Matrix Space for discussions
• Translations
• Contribution guidelines - please read first, including before opening an issue!

Magazines

Unofficial magazines:

• @[email protected]
• @[email protected]
• @[email protected]

Contributors

Ernest	Melroy van den Berg	BentiGorlich	e-five	asdfzdfj	Weblate (bot)
SzymonKaminski	Adam Cooper	Simon Codrington	Kingsley Yung	TheVillageGuy	Daniel Pervan
Ahrotahn	Gauthier POGAM--LE MONTAGNER	CocoPoops	Anthony Lawn	Chris Hall	andrewmoise
Garrett W.	Piotr Sikora	Bryson	vpzomtrrfrt	cavebob	John Wesley
Pol Dellaiera	ryanmonsen	Allan Nordhøy	CSDUMMI	Nathan Sparrow	privacyguard

Getting Started

Documentation

See docs.joinmbin.org

Requirements

See also Symfony requirements

• PHP version: 8.2 or higher
• GD or Imagemagick PHP extension
• NGINX / Apache / Caddy
• PostgreSQL
• RabbitMQ
• Redis / KeyDB
• Mercure (optional)

Languages

Following languages are currently supported/translated:

• Bulgarian
• Chinese
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Esperanto
• Filipino
• French
• Galician
• German
• Greek
• Italian
• Japanese
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Russian
• Spanish
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

Credits

• grumpyDev: icons, kbin-theme
• Emma: Postmill
• Ernest: Kbin

License

AGPL-3.0 license