I noticed, but it's not me... not yet. The traffic simply dropped to an acceptable level. I'm working on maintaining this state permanently, and I think I'm on the right track. I want to do it really well and make use of the new possibilities we have now. In the meantime, I'm organizing the git/issues and will be on Matrix where we resolve certain technical matters. But I'll be back here soon and will tell you everything :)
ok cool, I already had element but wasn't sure what homeserver kbin was on. I think that would be a good thing to put on kbin.pub (unless it's already there and I just missed it). I've joined now though, thanks!
Don't forget to take breaks, even when there's a lot to do! We're all very happy to be here already, nothing is urgent enough that it's worth burning out over. :)
It's fast enough tbh. the issue right now for me is that its not pulling in other instances' posts making it kinda a ghost-town lol. if you look at something like fedia it has a lot more posts and such.
Idk if it’s just me but I feel like there’s a gap/wall between us here on kbin and others on other instances like lemmy. I feel like we are less interconnected than I thought.
Yup, that's what I'm saying. the federation ain't working right so it's like there's a "wall". Once federation starts working properly again it'll go away and work as expected.
Same, I think. Can @ernest comment on this, guide us on how to see more from other instances? I'm assuming it's because of the Cloudflare protection though.
edit: Nevermind I just saw the top pinned post on kbinMeta
Yup. if fedia is anything to go by, once federation is working it'll be very cool. idk whether it's better to just stay on fedia, or stay here, or what.... right now I'm just running two accounts lol.
I tried to move by creating account in Fedia, but it keeps saying my account is inactive when I try to login. No email verification either. I guess I will stay here 🤷♂️
Fedia is a new instance, so the DNS entries for it likely haven't been around as long. Recently created MX records and domains tend to be treated with much more suspicion by e-mail providers.
Yeah. I have a concern that because of the length of time it's been down we'll be seeing bigger than normal fragmentation of communities.
It's already the case that the previous "big" communities from places like beehaw.org and lemmy.ml have been replaced by KBin ones meanin that going forward this instance may be hosting the greater number - which isn't good for the fediverse.
Counterpoint, maybe it is good in a "rip the bandaid off" sort of way. If it didn't happen, we'd probably see way more centralization of communities on a single instance (almost everything was on lemmy.ml before the federation broke). Now we have multiple instances with large communities on duplicate topics. We will likely have to figure out the best way to deal with that, and better it is figured out early.
Pretty sure it's just early morning in most of the relevant parts of the world right now and some of the initial curiosity is gone as well. Once it's evening it will likely be worse again.
Reminds me of Mastodon.social after the Twitter takeover last year. There were frequent outages as the admins desperately tried to increase their server space to deal with all the new users.
To a degree at least. I suppose that once the storm calms down a bit, it becomes easier for people to spin up their own instances and federation starts working the way it should it'll ease up even more.
Yup, everything is working pretty well now! This morning it was near impossible to do anything. So great to see communities really starting to grow here now.
I believe I remember reading Saturday or Sunday that they were buying better servers or something. I'm not an IT dude. But I recall him saying it should be faster at the beginning of the week...which is now
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