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Mbin: A kbin fork that promises to never review PRs before merging them (kbin.social)
submitted 10 months ago by density@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social
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Somebody who was previously active on the kbin codeberg repo has left that to make a fork of kbin called mbin.

repo: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

In the readme it says:

Important: Mbin is focused on what the community wants, pull requests can be merged by any repo member. Discussions take place on Matrix then consensus has to be reached by the community. If approved by the community, no additional reviews are required on the PR. It's built entirely on trust.

As a person who hangs around in repos but isn't a developer that sounds totally insane. Couldn't someone easily slip malicious, or just bad, code in? Like you could just describe one cool feature but make a PR of something totally different. Obviously that could happen to any project at any time but my understanding of "code review" is to at least have some due diligence.

I don't think I would want to use any kind of software with a dev structure like this. Is it a normal way of doing stuff?

Is there something I'm missing that explains how this is not wildly irresponsible?

As for "consensus" every generation must read the classic The Tyranny of Stuctureless. Written about the feminist movement but its wisdom applies to all movements with libertarian (in the positive sense) tendencies. Those who do not are condemned to a life of drama, not liberation.

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[–] density@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

they don't use github issues?

[–] SamXavia@kbin.run 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They do but it would be nice to have a place to talk about it in a Magazine instead of having to go to external sites

[–] density@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can't make a magazine? https://kbin.run/newMagazine

[–] SamXavia@kbin.run 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's not that I can't make a magazine, it's just it won't be looked at or be used as an official one. So it would be worthless creating one

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That is correct, we do not have an "official" instance or an "official" magazine. What follows now is MY OWN opinion, other community members might think differently.

Mbin is aiming for a federated and decentralized social network, I think the whole point of the fediverse is that there shouldn't be one main instance, right? Feel free to create a magazine where ever you want! Isn't that the beauty of activitypub? Maybe the idea takes some getting used to.

[–] density@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

here we all are talking about it on fediverse@kbin.social which certainly isn't Official Fediverse comm.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

kbin.social is the official instance of kbin ;)

[–] density@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your community members ("I do love Mbin") are expressing that they are unhappy with the mediums available for discussion and feel excluded. What is done about it?

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel a bit of negativity from you. This will be my last reply in this thread. She has resolved it herself by creating a magazine by herself on Mbin for Mbin: https://kbin.run/m/Mdev

[–] density@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

How do you know the future?

If you are correct, it is very strange. Why would people who are so passionate about creating a social media platform refuse to use it?