Where is ernes? What is going on? There are so many things to do on kbin.
Please, I want information. What is going on again? Why can't someone take over the project?

Who controls karab.in? it has not turned on for several weeks or even months.

cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/825076

Migrate Lemmy server to mbin

I'm thinking of migrating my Lemmy-Server over to Mbin so that I can follow Mastodon users as well. I know that there are tools to export/import the community and magazine subscriptions. But what about all my posts and comments?

I don't have any communities on my server and I guess the posts and comments I made should live on in the other Lemmy servers. But it would be really nice to be able to navigate back to them and/or receive notifications about replies to old content.

Has anyone ever done something along those lines? Maybe even just with a dirty SQL script?

And I would like to keep all my pictrs uploads in some way. Though I guess this should be easier to figure out with some bash scripting.

First, I think Ernest has done a fantastic job and I've been rooting for him this whole time. But it's becoming clear it's all too much for him without the support of a larger team.

Over the last several months there have been multiple posts about the spam problems on this instance, both here and on other instances. We've been fortunate so far they haven't simply defederated us.

Now when I go to the Hot page it's 12 hours out of date.

It's with a heavy heart I looked into a kbin fork mentioned in another thread in this magazine: Mbin.

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

Instance list: https://fedidb.org/software/mbin

The largest instance: https://fedia.io/

I'll miss you Kbin. It's been good. Thanks Ernest!

It's not the purpose of this post to support any particular instance. Feel free to mention your own alternatives below.

Abandoned large magazines are being bombarded with spam and admins are nowhere to be seen it seems. Hundreds of spam bot posts have not been deleted for months, see /infosec /internet /opensource /science, etc. and there are some posts about admins not responding to reports. So whats happening here?

I see that non-admins are banning spammers from their communities in mod log but thats not an instance wide ban

are any other instances even federating with kbin after this barrage of unmoderated spam?

There seems to be a few waves of users created just to post spam specifically in kbin. It's quite strange as the posts are so obvious and they keep getting downvoted. I'm also blocking the users but I can't see a way to report them. Is there a better way to handle this situation?

Hey guys, I'm toying with the idea of deploying a personal kbin instance in Azure. Has anyone done this and have any tips to share? What kind of costs am I looking at?

@kbin kbin is constantly returning 50x and 404 errors to me for the last few weeks. It's literally unusable, even for browsing. What's going on? Is it just me? should I move on to a different instance?

#kbin

I just had 2 play over themselves on my feed. I'd rather not block channels or users just to stop it. Videos should never autoplay in the threads

Interpreting a Dream Transition from Serene Water to a Shooting Scene - Insights Needed

Recently, I had a vivid dream that started with me standing beside a calm lake, and then abruptly shifted to a scene where I heard gunshots in the distance. This transition from a peaceful water setting to a potentially dangerous situation was both intriguing and unsettling. I've read an article (https://psychosick.com/dream-about-shooting/) that provided some insights, but I'm curious to hear more interpretations. What could this shift in my dream signify? Has anyone experienced something similar, and how did you interpret it? I'm looking for perspectives on the symbolism of water and sudden, jarring transitions in dreams. Any insights or similar experiences would be greatly appreciated!

#kbin

Artemis was stopped in its tracks because the source code hasn’t been released, and the app is only set to work with Artemis Camp. The two workarounds used to get the project going have taken a turn for the worse, because all of Artemis development depends on one person, and one server

I'd like to do a poll in a magazine, basically like they are on reddit. But better of course, not limited to 6 entries and maybe even have links or pictures in the entries.

Currently there's no such functionality in kbin and I'm not expecting there to be one soon.

What would be the best way to do it with what's available now? All suggestions welcome, thanks!

So this has.me confused for some time now:

On kbin, I can follow other Fediverse users and see their Mastodon posts and all, but the accounts I followed do not appear on my Microblog feed. What's up with that? How am I supposed to interact with the followed accounts? I love that kbin wants to embrace everything Activitypub has to offer, but I didn't quite get behind this one.

I've had a number of items I've wanted to save for future reference. I can't seem to find an option on the Furefox mobile site that allows me to do that.

Sure I can open in browser and bookmark, but I'd rather they all be under my account here.

Thanks in advance.

I'm curious about the demographic makeup of Kbin. As we are still in it's infancy I feel that most lean towards a certain way, so I made this survey just now to find out. I encourage you to join in, and you can skip any and every question if you so choose. You can view the results at the bottom of the page.

As current state, even within Fediverse, browsing contents from other Fediverse like Mastodon still does not feel quite the same. Of course, It's a different social media platform so it's expected that, you will need 1 Reddit account and 1 Twitter account. But in Fediverse, do we need to do the same?

On the kbin.pub. It said:

It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube.

I thought Mastodon (and maybe other federative platforms) are very different from kbin, in terms of the intended uses and functionalities. How do I interact with it?

When I make a thread on /m/kbin, what does it do on Mastodon?

TL;DR: I made a styled version of Reddit for Kbin instances for people participating in the reddit migration. Inspired mostly by Old Reddit, but it actually has a dark mode!

It would be useful to be able to make a local copy of a “thread” from another node without participating in that other other thread. Think of it as a git branch.

Rationale:

1. Resilience to bugs & failures. When the other node is up and down with sketchy reliability, that seems to impact external users from participating in a thread. e.g. I get “error 500” in some cases when trying to read lemmyWorld threads. A reliable node should not impose a bad UX in situations where there is a dependency on an unreliable node.

2. I am prejudiced against some threadiverse nodes, as I’m sure many people are. E.g. I want no participation with lemmy.ml because I do not want to support their oppressive management style. That means I’m only interested in some minimal consumption of content from lemmy.ml, not production of content. So if an interesting thread emerges on lemmy.ml, there’s some benefit to being able to create a local branch where local replies are not copied back to the parent.

This feature could perhaps be called mirroring, ophaning, or branching.

It would be useful if on a case-by-case basis the user who starts a new branch can specify whether or not parent comments are also copied locally and somehow indicated as read-only.

yo idk if this is the right place to put this, so sorry if it's not. Iv been really trying to figure this place out and honestly it feels like they made things overly complicated. I understand the magazines and the federated stuff I guess, maybe. But what the hell is the difference between posts and threads. Also I have noticed that sometimes I go into a magazine that says it has posts and threads and there is nothing there. Just need a little help. I don't want to go back to reddit.

Is there any way to make kbin play nice when going back after viewing a post on infinite scroll? It's very frustrating to use after the first "page" as the browser gets stuck at the bottom of the first page and needs to be scrolled all the way down back to wherever you were.

#kbin

Is there any way to block an entire instance, instead of just individual communities one at a time? My feed has a ton of stuff from feddit.de, I don't speak the language.

#kbin