there is !AskMbin@thebrainbin and also the matrix chat: https://matrix.to/#/#mbin:melroy.org if you need mbin specific help in the future :)

mbin has had an accessible API for a few months now. You can use Interstellar with for example (not on iOS thuogh)

I absolutely see the problem, but making users host their own server to host their actor profile and posts is just too complicated. I mean why not just host the whole AP server then… Additionally it reminded me a lot of Activity Pods

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Very cool

Ah ok great, thanks for explaining

How does it work? I can’t find any info about that in !canvas@toast.ooo at least not in the description or a pinned post

well server uptime is usually, and in the case of fediverse observer, coupled to a successful response. If the server spits out a 500 internal server error, that does not count as being up

And there is magazine hosted on his instance for it: !interstellar@kbin.earth

He does not have a donation page, yet. The GitHub repo for it: https://github.com/jwr1/interstellar

Interstellar could support iOS, but the dev was actually the one that told me about the costs and that he just don’t want to pay it. Maybe he could be convinced to support iOS if a developer or tester with an iPhone helped him and the community chipped in for the dev account. After all he does everything for free, like most of us do

I think the instance is not showing because it is not online at the moment… here you can see the stats of kbin.social on fediverse observer https://kbin.fediverse.observer/kbin.social

Regarding the amount of instances and the rather small users/server: a lot of the mbin instances used to be kbin ones (like you can tell by their name) including mine. So we did not start with one central instance that all the users went to, but with a lot that already had a small number of users. And the project itself is not that old, not even a year (we start in September or October 2023). I’d say we really only have one hyperfocused instance and that being rimworld.gallery

I’ve recently heard that an iOS developer account costs 100$/year. I think that’s one of the reasons why…

https://kbin.fediverse.observer/kbin.social there you can go to graphs and see the uptime. The overall uptime is actually still quite good with 95.94%, but in recent months it has been a bit rough

I think it is good to point it out though. kbin.social is missing from the fediverse observer, but if you have a look at this: https://mbin.fediverse.observer/list you’ll see that almost all mbin servers have a >98% recent uptime and a >95% uptime over the whole lifetime of the server. Sadly, fedidb does not have an uptime metric

(yes mine is not up there, because it was offline for a week in september last year)

@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social MEP for @piratenpartei@piratenpartei.social and the European Pirate Party: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/112636245969803768

I always welcome new people at https://thebrainbin.org (EN) and https://gehirneimer.de (DE) :)

been using the flatpack for months and had no issues so far

If you go by that then we have at least 4 flagship instances:

• kbin.run ~ Debounced
• kbin.melroy.org ~ Melroy
• gehirneimer.de ~ Me
• thebrainbin.org ~ also Me