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this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Reddit Migration
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Also, the Kbin dev expressly stated he isn't ready for a massive migration, and the current influx has caused him no end of stress. We want to keep him around and not drive him insane.
I would argue we also don't want to be in a place where we rely on any one individual. Thankfully @ernest seems to understand that as well.
I appreciate the concern, and it seems to me that kbin is no longer just one person ;) Currently, kbin is a team of wonderful people who handle development work, devops, project management, and more. Additionally, Piotr helps me with administering kbin.social. There will be significant changes here soon, things are happening quickly. But to be honest, I wasn't fully prepared for such substantial growth, and it will probably take some time before everything stabilizes. But... this is just the beginning ;) What's important is that the snowball starts rolling, regardless of whether kbin, Lemmy, or Mastodon gains the most users. We all win in this situation.
@ernest
@Fizzee @abff08f4813c @tbird83ii @BedSharkPal
Given that Kbin has more active users in the past month than any lemmy instance, I’m sure it’s been wild for you considering this was a side project.
Yeah, the pace is still crazy, but it's a completely different mental comfort when you're aware that you're not alone ;)
We're all with you!
Yup, we are all with you dude!
Java Dev here if there’s anything I can contribute with a couple hours a week!
kbin is written in PHP, but if you want to contribute, it's opensource on codeberg.
My condolences
r/ProgrammerHumor.. Oh oops, old habit.
We have an m/ProgrammerHumor !
hashtags work in the fediverse #ProgrammerHumor
Kbin is PHP/Symfony, but people are writing tools in various languages, not to mention clients. I haven't looked at the client repositories, but I assume that some, if not all, of the codebases for them are Java.
And my axe!
Reddit really is here
Let me know if you need some more coffee!
;)
To everyone who may wish to, if you want to support ernest see below link.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin
The thing that helps Kbin the most is that it is, by far, the easiest to understand. Googling "Lemmy fediverse" gives a bunch of various links to other Lemmy instances, which are presented in a way as if they are separated from one another. Kbin appears as one site, one location for content aggregation. Although that "goes against the idea" of decentralization, most users are currently looking for their "one home to replace their old one home". The more users flock to one area and learn how it works, the more things will begin to take their proper shape, so to speak.
A feature we'll definitely want to have with kbin in the future is the ability to migrate accounts to other instances. That would mean that even though we're centralizing on kbin.social right now, people could move to other instances and spread the load across the fediverse without losing their history
I'm still learning the ins and outs of this place and the others, but part of me thought that was the feature of being federated. User accounts could seamlessly transfer from one instance to another.
Looking further into it, it looks like that feature exists for content, but not so much for accounts.
You can access content from an account anywhere, but not migrate the account.
I think it exists in Mastodon, it just hasn't been worked on yet for Kbin / lemmy.
Love you, Ernest 💕
Don't become like those overlords. Stay down to Earth with the rest of humanity.
Wishing you the best of luck, hoping Kbin succeeds! It has everything to be a great platform for the long run.