I’ll say within the past few months there hasn’t been as much activity as there usually has been, so there’s not like a lot of new features coming in like there is for PieFed. Part of that is likely due to the fact that Mbin’s low on devs ATM, especially since one of the previous devs went AWOL. Still, I’ll say Mbin is already quite polished and works well, even if the dev team isn’t as active as they once were.

Luckily, I was able to mitigate it within the week it started, by setting up specific Cloudflare firewall rules. I just haven’t remembered to downgrade the server since it happened :)

The experience for setting up an Mbin server has greatly improved with the latest Docker setup rework. So now, it shouldn’t take more than a few minutes to get a simple Mbin setup running.

As for resource usage, my server (kbin.earth) doesn’t have anywhere close to the user base fedia.io does, but I’ve been able to run my server (which has ~150 active and ~600 total users) on a decently low-resource server. In the past month or so, it’s been a server with 16 vCPUs and 32 GB RAM, but previously it was running on 8 vCPUs and 16 GB RAM (had to upgrade due to DDOS).

I’ve been running my server for about 1.5 years (since December 2023), and most of the time it is a set-and-forget type of thing, of course, until you need to update things or troubleshoot some issue. But overall, it’s been working great, and when you do run into an issue, the Mbin devs are usually quick to help troubleshoot with you.

It is true that Mbin doesn’t have an “official” instance, but there are multiple servers that are run by the Mbin devs, including thebrainbin.org, gehirneimer.de, and kbin.melroy.org (and kbin.earth if you count me).

@TyrianMollusk@infosec.pub Yes, that is correct. There’s no way to register for an account through the app ATM. You’ll just have to do so through the website.

Yeah sorry, I’m guessing Flutter (Interstellar’s UI framework) doesn’t support devices that old.

To add, I’ve been using micro lately.

I think there’s some sort of DDOS attack going around because I’ve been in the same boat with kbin.earth slowing down. kbin.earth’s traffic has nearly doubled in just the past few days and I’m still trying to figure out the source.

Writing this message on the interstellar app just now. My only minor gripe is that there’s no way to mark something as read with a single tap that I’ve found. (Got to long press and mark as read, but I’ll accept that I may have missed something)

I’ll give a quick overview: to mark a post as read, you need to either open it, vote on it, boost it, or mark it as read explicitly, which can be done through the overflow menu (long press or tap overflow button, like you said) or by configuring the swipe gestures to have the mark as read action (then all you have to do is swipe on the post). In the next update, we will also have a “mark as read on scroll” option, which, when enabled, will mark all posts in your feed as read once it scrolls off the top of the screen.

Lol, that’s insane. I hope everybody saves their money for better things.

Interstellar actually does support Lemmy as well, unless you mean other apps.

I’m the developer of Interstellar, and I am actually from the US. iOS support is something I’d like to add, but is not the priority. @Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org made many good points about it not catering towards FOSS projects, but I’d also like to add, it costs $100 every single year in order to have an Apple developer account, which is required if you want to publish anything to the Apple App Store. Additionally, Apple’s very expensive hardware is required in order to build and release any Apple software, which I do not own.

All that to say, I’d like to support iOS and macOS platforms, but Apple makes it extremely difficult (and costly) for that to happen. Why should I have to pay $100 every year in order to publish a free app that I’m not even making any money off of?

Interstellar is also available for desktop platforms (including Linux and Windows) if you’d prefer to try it there instead (check the GitHub page for info).

Also want to mention @olorin99, as well, for helping test and implement PieFed support in the app!

As always, let me know if you run into any issues or want to make any suggestions.

Ah, yes. I misinterpreted the context.

I’m sure you know, but technically, Microblogs are still considered “posting to your profile”. It’s just that Mbin also happens to categorize those microblogs into a specific magazine, either based on tags or manual placement. They still display in your profile just like normal. Additionally, if you view those Mbin microblogs from a Mastodon server, they will still appear as if the user “posted to their profile”. All Mbin is doing is assigning the Microblog a general categorization.

There will be soon :)

Upvoting should be your default. Boosting is more like a “retweet”, where you are publicly reposting something on your profile.

Thank you for your support ❤

@asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev

(Interstellar dev here) Not sure what you mean by alpha. Sure, Interstellar could always use improvements, but that’s the same as with any app. I, and I’m assuming many other people, daily use Interstellar, and mainly without any issue.

If you have any specific feedback you’d like to provide, I am very welcome to it. Many times that people have mentioned a bug/issue, I’ve tried to incorporate a change that would fix said issue within an update or so (several were even incorporated in the update that was just released).

I will admit, we need more developers working on Interstellar, but someone making a whole new Mbin app would do completely the opposite of what Interstellar needs (it would mean fewer potential developers working on Interstellar).

I’ve worked hard on this app for over a year at this point, and I would have considered it alpha at the beginning, but at this point, it is definitely ready for general use and not “alpha”. As the solo “active” contributor (I appreciate all the not as active contributors as well), I just can’t work on everything all at once.

I hope it’s still going alright :)