mbin does federate e.g. @syuilo@misskey.io, the founder/lead developer of misskey. I can at least see the text content of their posts and replies, but not image attachments and reactions.

You may be able to register with a Misskey instance that isn’t Japanese but still federates with misskey.io. For instance, I made an account on misskey.social which is an Italian-based instance. I still see posts from misskey.io, from anybody there that I follow.

Not sure what it looks like as a guest, but when I set my feed filter to “Global”, it is lightning fast. If you set that filter to “Social” you’ll see only who you follow, which will naturally slow it down.

Be warned that misskey.io has a lot of R34 art on it - keep that Sensitive Media blur up and running.

I suppose you mean the limitations per diem on voting is what encouraged the hive mind, but even without those limitations Reddit and Lemmy have developed hive minds of their own, with similarly SOHC behaviors.

I wish Mbin had even a fraction of the childlike whimsy that Misskey has.

I also miss old school PHP bulletin board systems, which had similar emoji style votes where each one had different meanings, probably similar to what the op was talking about.

“If you’ve been watching my channel for any length of time, then you should already have a pretty clear understanding of what my personal politics are. If you’ve been under the impression that I’ve not been political, you simply don’t understand what politics means. I have indeed stayed out of partisan politics and electoral politics, but I’ve been wearing my personal politics on my sleeve this whole time, and they’ve not been that subtle.”