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Mbin

Community-driven fork of the kbin aggregator

Social Networks ★ 428 stars Hard setup AGPL-3.0

Mbin is a free, open-source, federated content aggregator and microblogging platform, forked from kbin and maintained by the community. It supports threads, microblogs, and ActivityPub federation.

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Key features

  • Threads and microblogging
  • ActivityPub federation
  • Magazine communities
  • Community-driven governance

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Active community fork
  • Regular releases

Trade-offs

  • Heavier deployment
  • Smaller ecosystem

Is Mbin secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Mbin's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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