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Did you mean Vivaldi? It features a sidebar already with their own Mastodon instance: Vivaldi Social featured as one of sidebar entries.
A Vivaldi account allows to use not only Vivaldi Social, but also to make a WordPress blog, with federation available too.
The platforms should provide inter-protocol bridging natively. Now we have to follow an unrelated (to either) account and hope that it not fails silently*. This should be a switch in the UI.
*at least one can follow bridged accounts from elsewhere without bridging oneself.
OP is on lemmy.world, and default feed is All (sorted by Active) there
kbin.social did lift off. Maybe even too much for this software at the time?
If Mbin is meant to be a “Lemmy and Mastodon client” alone, then it is a quirky Lemmy “app” and less responsive Mastodon “app”.
But it shines only when it scales. This, however needs more users taking use of eg. magazines’ custom CSS (and these don’t even federate!), keeping track on most popular Mastodon & co hashtags, adding these tags to Mbin magazines, following outside accounts to federate them to instance, etc…
All the Great Exodus fledditors, people craving for non-tankie Threadiverse service, and also curious fedinauts from outside made this happen on kbin.social, and this is what I loved in it the most.
Mbin happened when kbin.social was already crumbling, but many of its users (me included) still hoped for it. When kbin.social definitely collapsed, the previous kbinauts were already aware of not-tankie Lemmy instances, like sh.itjust.works (hosting MeanwhileOnGrad), sopuli.xyz, or generic lemmy.world.
Maybe the more aggresive Mbin marketing (have you seen the sidebar of this community - it still mentions “KBin”…) would help Mbin - but only at cost of making drama with existing kbinauts. With Lemmy’s toxicity problem being talked much recently (and instances being closed because of it) I am glad, that things did not go that way.
I just don’t wasn’t then to waste their time locally blocking a clear spam account, that should (and usually will be) removed by the originating instance in a couple hours.
I am afraid, that removal of spam account does not necessarily federate to another instance. On Mastodon activities federate mainly to instances an account, which made/edited/deleted the post, is followed from. (Or an instance can subscribe to relay, which exchanges all activities between all participating instances).
Report always landing to your admin may be something good in light of this…
It was a great website. You could feel the fun of exploring everything together with hundreds of new users, from Lemmy communities to Mastodon toots with great threading of discussions. From custom magazine CSS to Collections (remade by PieFed as Feeds). A new, emergent website culture and the promise of later progress (we were meant later to have e.g. flairs (as Badges), and federation with Mobilizon).
You are seeing /kbin software as a Reddit alternative, but it could be more than that. I am aware of attempts of making, based on /kbin, a newsletter/blog platform (instead of Substack?) or a local social media website, as an alternative to Facebook local groups.
Mbin should still be able to view any post from subscribed blogs (be it from WriteFreely, WordPress, openwrite or Ghost), as a full article and the view of it should be very clean.