Does anybody happen to have contact with Ernest outside of Kbin? It's a little concerning that his last update over a month ago was that he was going in for a medical procedure and that he'd only be gone for a few days. I hope he's doing alright.
@Chozo @Seraph He posted in kbinmeta this morning:
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/875274/RE-Is-Ernest-still-here
Kbin just has the best frontpage honestly, content wise and UI wise.
When Kbin isn’t working I check out Lemmy but it just feels too cluttered. If I didn’t need to get paid I’d help Ernest out but, ya know, capitalism 🤷♂️
Many of the lemmy instances have two or more front-ends available. I find https://photon.lemmy.world/ with the dark them and "List" post style looks pretty nice. There's at least one that just simply replicates old reddit.
Funny thing...
Underneath all of the sycophantic language, this thread somehow still has the same stench as the past mbin concern troll threads.
I'm just not buying it.
Again, the point here isn't what the alternative is.
It's the fact that Kbin isn't WORKING.
Kbin is working fine for me.
If you want to use mbin, just use it - who gives a shit what instance you are on? Innit that the whole point of federation?
I agree. I’m no marathon kbin contributor, but I like it here a lot and I would be happier if this thread was about what we can do to support kbin as an instance.
If mbin where a placeholder for doing this (as in if certain permissions aren’t available yet) then I’d be buoyed up by OP’s thread.
Anyhoo, viva la kbin, viva la federation!
I couldn't figure out how to describe the vibe I was getting, but you put it into words very neatly.
You can still use /kbin via another instance: there is kbin.earth by the developer of Interstellar app.
Is there a list anywhere of different kbin instances? I don’t want to give up on kbin, but I might have to give up on social.
Technically it would be this
karab.in and bin.pol.social are Polish,
kbin.cafe has been abandonned with many instances have already blocked it,
wiku.hu is (Hungarian) silo.
I’ve been feeling it too, and have been on the fence about jumping ship. My block list is growing so fast it’s just a touch obscene. So many pill pushers junk websites and… random and science are hit so hard it’s frustrating.
any migration tools from kbin to mbin?
What's the difference between mbin and fedia?
Mbin is a software "fork". Meaning they took a snapshot of Kbin code and made their own improvements from then on.
Fedia is an instance, or a federated portal, and one of the ways you can use Mbin code. This is the largest Mbin instance - it has the most users.
Great clarification, thank you!
Well ain't this just unfortunate timing.
@Seraph According to https://status.lemm.ee the federation is not receiving data on real time from any kbin or mbin instance. I am following kbinmeta there and the most recent post is from three days ago. Fedia and kbin.run (both mbin) looks like two weeks ago is the earliest.
Edit: Looks like ot took about 21 hours for a kbin post to hit lemm.ee. No comments
..just post. So a 21 one hour delay so far.
So how do you move a kbin magazine over to a new instance like fedia.io?