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 "Developers" section down below)
• GitHub Security advisories, vulnerability reporting, Dependabot and Advanced code scanning enabled. And we run local-php-security-checker.
• 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 listing of instances

Star History

Contributing

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

Getting Started

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)

Documentation

See docs.joinmbin.org

Languages

Following languages are currently supported/translated:

• Bulgarian
• Chinese
• Dutch
• English
• Esperanto
• French
• German
• Greek
• Italian
• Japanese
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

Credits

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

License

AGPL-3.0 license