Jerry

@Jerry@feddit.online

Admin/owner of this KBIN instance, https://feddit.online

I'm a liberal who also follows conservatives who use facts to form opinions & are good people. I want my beliefs challenged. I hate when people agendize everything. I play around a lot with Linux. My day job is IT for a bank.

Mastodon: https://hear-me.social
Calckey: https://bostonsocial.online
Peertube: https://my-sunshine.video

he/him/his

#StarTrek #ScienceFiction #Linux searchable

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Jerry,

As one Admin to another, I'm sad to hear that we're losing a good instance. And, I'm sorry that people ruined your fun.

Thanks for all you've done. All the best to you.

I feel like all fedi software has problematic devs, Calckey

I feel like almost every single piece of software has some problematic dev that has racism, transphobia, or both. I recently read a post about the calc key devs and sighed *facepalm. It is honestly really annoying cause I want friends to use Fedi but than you can pull up a whole laundry list of problems with the devs and it’s...

Jerry, (edited )

The issue with the Calckey developer is that another Admin is making claims that the Calckey dev doctored an image that she sent making it look like she's racist. But, I assure you, she is known to lie about people. Point is, don't be so sure to blame the Calckey Admin for this one. It's just as likely to be the other one. I won't take sides on this because I don't know who is the slug.

But, to your point, whichever one is lying, it does show a problem with Admins sometimes being disgusting low-grade people.

I'm an Admin of a Mastodon, Firefish, KBIN, and Peertube instance, and I had interactions this weekend with 4 other Admins, and I seriously thought about giving this all up because it depressed me so much. One Admin is racist, the others are taking joy in harassing other Admins.

There are some really fantastic Admins out there who are ideal human beings and who fiercly protect the people on their servers.

Jerry,

You have to use hashtags on Mastodon if you want your messages to be seen because there is no AI to fill timelines. People follow hashtags and search for them. Then you'll get likes and boosts.

And, you control your own timeline by following hashtags, following people, and searching for hashtags. This way, unlike Twitter, your timeline only has posts that you are interested in. Once you get this set up, it's quite nice to only see posts that you like reading, without advertising and without posts meant to enrage you.

Also you can use https://fedi.directory to find great people to follow.

Jerry,

The key word here is "connected" instances. You don't find hashtag-related posts from all the servers, just the servers that your server is connected to and also only posts that your server has seen from other servers.

This is why, on my instance, I relay with over 300 other instances, some of them are the larger ones. All the posts they see on their server are duplicated onto my smaller server. The impact is that while my server is small, it has the same messages as one of the large servers which makes for a better experience. Note that Mastodon.social does not relay with any other instance. Not that most instances could possibly hold all their posts and accounts anyway.

When I search for hashtags on my instance, I do get a lot of hits.

Many smaller servers do not relay as much as I do, or at all, because it requires disk space to store all the posts, images, and accounts that are streaming in constantly from all these other servers. I don't have these concerns because I have unlimited capacity. So, the experience will vary depending on which server your account is on.

Jerry,

OMG. Thanks for posting. I run a Mastodon server as well and, oh my, the Mastodon Developers would never have been willing to help me. A wild tale. Glad the fix ended up in the next release. Thanks for posting!

Chozo, (edited ) to fediverse
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I feel like the reason , and the at large, aren't taking off has to do with the fact that they're actually social networks. People don't seem to want a social network, they want content platforms. People aren't using or or to keep up with their friends these days, they're using these apps to entertain themselves. And since and every other platform that used to be a social network began pivoting toward content promotion, I think society has forgotten what a social network is supposed to actually be anymore.

(E: Grammar.)

Jerry,

@Chozo Interesting thought

mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)

mastodon.art has decided to suspend firefish.social from their instance due to issues with its administrator. The administrator of firefish.social was found to be boosting posts from a known harasser on another instance. mastodon.art takes a firm stance against racism and suspending full instances in these situations is part of...

Jerry,

There were two screen shots. I saw them. At least one of them was doctored. That is all anybody knows. How are some people so certain which Admin doctored the screen shot?

SamXavia, to fediverse
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    Jerry,

    @SamXavia I think your friend is a looney conspiracy theorist

    Jerry,

    Your Mastodon login is tied to the Mastodon server that you belong to. Mastodon servers are run by volunteers and servers can disappear.

    1. What happens to your Pixelfed account if your Mastodon server shuts down?
    2. What happens to your Pixelfed account if you switch to a different Mastodon server?
    3. What happens to your ability to log into your Pixelfed account should your Mastodon server be down for maintenance?
    4. What happens to your Pixelfed account should you be suspended by the Admin on your Mastodon server?

    A Federated Fediverse login would need to be tied to a central entity that is permanent and always available. No such entity exists and will probably ever exist. I'd be cautious using a Mastodon login on any other platform unless someone can convince me I could recover my account should my login-affiliated Mastodon server become unavailable.

    stackPeek, to fediverse
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    Just found out that the Mastodon instance that my favorite artist uses (AFAIK*) defederated Kbin/Lemmy instance that I'm currently using. As a result, I think I can't follow this artist. I kinda understand that defederation is important, but... the problem is I don't think the instances I am using did anything wrong. But then again, even the line of what's considered "doing anything wrong" is really subjective, depends on who you asked.

    Also, I now understand even more about the drama few days ago about beehaw

    *I saw the server list on the Mastodon instance about page, and it listed as "Suspended", I wonder what this means

    Jerry,

    @stackPeek You are currently on kbin.social so I assume kbin.social has been suspended (a.k.a. de-federated or blocked) from that server. On Mastodon, "Suspended" means totally blocked. You cannot follow anyone, they cannot follow you. All communication, including API requests, are blocked.

    A Mastodon instance blocking kbin.social, is, to me, irrational behavior by the Admin and an extreme disservice to those on the server.

    Can you share the name of the Mastodon instance?

    Jerry,

    @stackPeek I was going to guess mastodon.art was the one. I wonder how many on her server are aware of how cut off they are from the Fediverse.

    Jerry,

    Love it!

    Jerry, (edited )

    Mine won't nor will any of my other 3 Fediverse servers.

    I know of a number of Mastodon servers that have already de-federated or limited threads.net, even though it does not yet connect to the Fediverse. Some are even limiting or suspending connections to servers that refuse to de-federate from threads.net and are trying to pressure other servers to do the same.

    An Admin has no right to force their personal agendas onto all the people who are on their servers. People are competent enough to make their own decisions and can individually decide to block or limit Threads. I block servers on my server to protect members from hateful people.

    I will limit threads.net if their moderation is inadequate, just as I do now for a number of Mastodon servers that don't do much to keep hatred and offensive content off their servers. This won't prevent anyone from following someone or being followed by someone, on threads.net. It just means that people on my server need to approve being followed and that posts from threads.net won't show up in the public timeline.

    At this point, I haven't heard of any Kbin instances planning to de-federate but there's a ton of yacking about it on Mastodon. I finally muted the "threads" hashtag to get some peace from it.

    Jerry,

    Yep. I am now pre-emptively limiting threads.net on my Mastodon instance. No current plans to block but I have a feeling I'll never lift the limit.

    Jerry,

    Just add "/terms" after the domain name, like https://feddit.online/terms

    Terms, and other information screens, are not listed anywhere in the KBIN UI that I've been able to find. I expect it will be in the future.

    Jerry,

    I have no trouble accessing lemmy.ca

    1chemistdown, to kbinMeta
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    Is Kbin planning on federating with meta/Facebook when they introduce their new twitter like instance through activitypub?

    Jerry,

    @1chemistdown ActivityPub is a public protocol just like every other Internet protocol. Individual server Admins, whether they run KBIN, Lemmy, Mastodon, Calckey, PixelFed, PeerTube servers, are free to block any other server that connects to ActivityPub. You have to ask the Admin of the server you're on or interested in joining.

    Jerry, (edited )
    • I ignored the thing about kbin.localhost and everything on https://feddit.online is working well, also in my test environment. So, you can probably skip it too.
    • The "var" folder will not be found in the kbin folder so the chown will not work. What I did, and from other comments that I've read, I think this is what it should have been, "sudo chown 82:82 /var"

    Here's my .env file without the secrets.
    Where I mention a long secret, you can use this Linux command to generate a strong 32-character secret
    openssl rand -hex 32

    # kbin variables
SERVER_NAME="feddit.online"
KBIN_DOMAIN=feddit.online
KBIN_TITLE=/kbin
KBIN_DEFAULT_LANG=en
KBIN_FEDERATION_ENABLED=true
KBIN_CONTACT_EMAIL=admin@feddit.online
KBIN_SENDER_EMAIL=notifications@feddit.online
KBIN_JS_ENABLED=true
KBIN_REGISTRATIONS_ENABLED=true
KBIN_API_ITEMS_PER_PAGE=25
#Frankly unsure if the next line does anything
KBIN_STORAGE_URL=https://media.feddit.online
KBIN_META_TITLE="Kbin Lab"
KBIN_META_DESCRIPTION="content aggregator and micro-blogging platform for the fediverse"
KBIN_META_KEYWORDS="kbin, content agregator, open source, fediverse"
KBIN_HEADER_LOGO=false
KBIN_CAPTCHA_ENABLED=true

# Redis
REDIS_PASSWORD=password_here_that_you_make_up
REDIS_DNS=redis://${REDIS_PASSWORD}@redis

# S3 storage (optional) THIS DOES NOTHING. TURNS OUT IT ONLY WORKS WITH AWS S3 AND I  WANT TO USE WASAB
# SO THESE SETTINGS ARE NOT USED
S3_KEY=<key>
S3_SECRET=<secret>
S3_BUCKET=media.feddit.online
S3_REGION=us-east-1
S3_VERSION=latest

# oAuth (optional)
OAUTH_FACEBOOK_ID=
OAUTH_FACEBOOK_SECRET=
OAUTH_GOOGLE_ID=
OAUTH_GOOGLE_SECRET=
OAUTH_GITHUB_ID=
OAUTH_GITHUB_SECRET=

###> symfony/framework-bundle ###
APP_ENV=prod
APP_SECRET=427f5e2940e5b2472c1b44b2d06e0525
###< symfony/framework-bundle ###

###> doctrine/doctrine-bundle ###
# Format described at https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-dbal/en/latest/reference/configuration.html#connecting-using-a-url
# IMPORTANT: You MUST configure your server version, either here or in config/packages/doctrine.yaml
#
POSTGRES_DB=kbin
POSTGRES_USER=kbin
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password_here_that_you_make_up
POSTGRES_VERSION=13
DATABASE_URL="postgresql://${POSTGRES_USER}:${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}@127.0.0.1:5432/${POSTGRES_DB}?serverVersion=${POSTGRES_VERSION}&charset=utf8"
###< doctrine/doctrine-bundle ###

###> symfony/messenger ###
# Choose one of the transports below
RABBITMQ_PASSWORD=password_here_that_you_make_up
MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN=amqp://kbin:${RABBITMQ_PASSWORD}@rabbitmq:5672/%2f/messages
###< symfony/messenger ###

###> symfony/mailer ###
#MAILER_DSN=smtp://localhost
###< symfony/mailer ###

###> symfony/mailgun-mailer ###
MAILER_DSN=smtp://notifications@feddit.online:<password here>@smtp.dreamhost.com:587
###< symfony/mailgun-mailer ###

###> symfony/mercure-bundle ###
# See https://symfony.com/doc/current/mercure.html#configuration
# The URL of the Mercure hub, used by the app to publish updates (can be a local URL)
MERCURE_URL=https://feddit.online/.well-known/mercure
# The public URL of the Mercure hub, used by the browser to connect
MERCURE_PUBLIC_URL=https://feddit.online/.well-known/mercure
# The secret used to sign the JWTs
MERCURE_JWT_SECRET=long_password_here_that_you_make_up
# Docker
CADDY_MERCURE_URL=https://feddit.online/.well-known/mercure
CADDY_MERCURE_JWT_SECRET=long_password_here_that_you_make_up
###< symfony/mercure-bundle ###

###> nelmio/cors-bundle ###
CORS_ALLOW_ORIGIN='^https?://(kbin.localhost|127.0.0.1)(:[0-9]+)?$'
###< nelmio/cors-bundle ###

###> symfony/lock ###
# Choose one of the stores below
# postgresql+advisory://db_user:db_password@localhost/db_name
LOCK_DSN=flock
###< symfony/lock ###

###> lexik/jwt-authentication-bundle ###
JWT_SECRET_KEY=%kernel.project_dir%/config/jwt/private.pem
JWT_PUBLIC_KEY=%kernel.project_dir%/config/jwt/public.pem
JWT_PASSPHRASE=
###< lexik/jwt-authentication-bundle ###

###> meteo-concept/hcaptcha-bundle ###
HCAPTCHA_SITE_KEY=<key>
HCAPTCHA_SECRET=<secret>
###< meteo-concept/hcaptcha-bundle ###
    Jerry,

    My last edit removes the markdown interpreter from messing up the text. I'm not sure if you saw it before I added the escape to make it more readable.

    Anyway, I hope it goes well for you!

    Jerry,

    Seriously, how stupid can someone possibly be to send money to a billionaire to help him pay for anything?

    tnkt, to kbin

    Is there a way to enable 2FA? (https://kbin.social)

    Jerry,

    @tnkt Sadly, not yet.

    Jerry,

    Hi. I think this is fixed now. Are you still able to see it?

    Jerry, (edited )

    Yeah, me too. I'm fine with KBIN. And there's already Lemmy as well. spezless is just a proposal. It's got a long way to go before it's viable.

    And this bothers me: "90% of revenue will go to moderators & power users". So, there's going to be advertising? I don't think anyone is going to want to see advertising. Or is it a subscription? I don't think that will work either.

    And to whom does the remaining 10% go?

    Jerry,

    Case sensitivity in magazine names is a known issue. There's an open Pull Request for it:

    Community name case sensitivity (?) issue

    Ernest marked it as a bug. It will eventually be fixed.

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