Is it just Kbin, or does every fediverse service have the issue of being totally swarmed with bots advertising illegal pharmaceuticals? Is this just the result of limited moderation?
Dzięki Waszym dobrowolnym wpłatom możemy finansować wiele projektów oraz utrzymywać serwerownię KRK-DC, w której prowadzimy dla Was paletę usług, by wymienić m. in.:
Oferujemy tę infrastrukturę również dla takich serwisów jak: NoEvil.pl, WriteFreely.pl, Kbin.social, FOSSGralnia, Polesie.Pol.social, TePeWu.pl, SVMetaSearch, CesarstwoKwadratowe, OZZIP, SKK, Plony.org, Parasol.coop, KO-OP.pl i kilku innych.
Więc jeśli wygodnie Wam wspierać te serwisy finansowane przez społeczność na Patronite, oraz uznacie, że nasza wspólna praca jest warta waszych dotacji, to serdecznie zapraszamy ❤️
This post doesn't directly affect kbin.social users, but it is relevant. It discusses some of the potential pros/cons of Kbin and Mbin, and also the direction the kbin.earth server is heading.
for a while now i've been looking for alternatives to reddit, because for me it's over. i've been using telegram, scored, kbin and chat-to.dev i think they're the best alternatives to look for good communities on the internet.
So I wanted to post a question about a #math problem, and I wanted to reach the widest possible math community on the #Fediverse. Aside from using the correct tag, my first thought was to find a #Lemmy or #kbin community/magazine to cc in the post. And … there isn't one. There's many. Just from a quick search I found https://lemmy.ml/c/mathematics https://lemmy.ml/c/math https://kbin.social/m/math
so now the question becomes … should I cross post to all of them? Or is that poor form?
Does anyone have a monocrome Kbin svg icon?
Just turning the whole logo into one color doesn't look very good, I found this one, but it's a bit off on the bottom connection.
Welcome to another busy news week. I’ve spend a bit more focus on NodeBB and Discourse federating with each other, as it is an interesting new way of putting federation in practice. Other news, such as around Ghost and PodcastAP show how expansive the fediverse is getting. Lets dive in:
Forum federation
NodeBB and Discourse are now federating with each other. Both forum softwares are working on their implementation of ActivityPub, and this week’s milestone marks a new step in federation that has not really been seen in the fediverse before. The implementation allows forum categories to follow each other. This means that a forum category on Discourse can now take in and show all posts on a specific forum category on NodeBB. An example of this can be seen here, this category on the Social Hub (which runs Discourse) follows a category of a NodeBB forum, and as such the posts made on NodeBB now show up on Discourse. To make it even more interesting, the NodeBB posts also federate with microblogging platforms like Mastodon, and as such comments made with a Mastodon account also show up.
This new version of federation might be a bit difficult to wrap your head around, so a quick explainer how this differs from how link-aggregator platforms like Lemmy and Kbin federate with each other. on there you can follow categories/communities that are on different instances/platforms, but the communities themselves cannot interact with each other. As an example: If you have an account on kbin.social you can follow both !fediverse and !fediverse, but these communities stay separate. This often leads to duplicate posts, and splintered communities. What NodeBB and Discourse have done is equivalent to if !fediverse and !fediverse could follow each other, so a post in one of the communities would show up in the other community.
The News
Ghost, the open-source platform for newsletters, has long had the request to add ActivityPub support. This week, Ghost founder John O’Nolan posted that the “idea has been at the top of the list for a long time, so this week we’re starting work to look into the possibility of adding ActivityPub support to Ghost.” Ghost posted a survey asking for input. The responses by the community show that there is a great interest in this feature: Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput reached out offering help (which O’Nolan gladly accepted), The Verge’s Editor In Chief Nilay Patel said that The Verge would be interested in knowing how Ghost approaches federation for paid newsletters, as The Verge wants to do this too, as well people sharing their survey responses. For more information, check out TechCrunch.
Upcoming fediverse platform Emissary has shown another preview how it can be used to build a federated Bandcamp alternative. In a short video developer Ben Pate walks through the current state, showing of a band page that is fully customisable, and has space for hosting (as well as linking to) music, and shows. For more information, check out this week’s article by WeDistribute.
Pixelfed developer Dansup has launched PubKit in closed beta. PubKit is a toolset for ActivityPub, that helps developers with testing and debugging their software. Dansup is considering options on how to/whether to open-source the code being PubKit while also making sure that his efforts are fairly compensated.
Mobilizon has transferred ownership from Framasoft to Kaihuri. Kaihuri is a small French organisation that has been maintaining the French Mobilizon instance Keskonfai for a long time, and got funding from NLnet to improve and maintain Mobilizon. Kaihuri showed a demo this week (recording here) of their work on the new features, with Calendars, Groups, a more customisable front page, and multi-day events all coming to the new update, which will be released soon. I’ll go into more detail once the update releases.
There has been some reshuffling in the different Misskey forks (‘Forkeys’). Sharkey is steadily cruising along. Firefish has passed on to new owner naskya, who is in the process of getting complete control and starting up the project again after a pause of a few months. Development on Catodon, a Firefish fork, is currently paused due to other obligations for the current lead developer. Iceshrimp, originally a fork of Firefish, is in a feature-freeze as the entire project (frontend and backend) is being rewritten in .net/C#. Iceshrimp announced this week that work on the backend is mostly finished.
Trump’s social network Truth.social is based on Mastodon, which is licensed under AGPL. In short means that the source code has to be made available to everyone who interacts with it. Truth.social has not done so for more than a year, and Evan Boehs decided to try to get Truth.social to comply with the AGPL license. To his surprise, they did, and send them the source code. Write-up of the situation here, source code here, analysis of the code by @Jasminhere.
Mastodon has gotten funding to implement quote posts. The feature is planned for update 4.4. The ability to opt-out of quote posts is also currently planned, which makes it that Mastodon’s implementation will not be compatible with other fediverse implementations of quote posting.
PodcastAP is new tool that allows you to easily follow every podcast with your fediverse, as it is integrated with podcastindex.org. With their latest update podcasts that already live on the fediverse (if they use Castopod or PeerTube to host their podcast), it can now follow the ActivityPub version of the podcast, as well as the ‘bridge’ version.
Liaizon Wakest pointed out that blogging platform Loforo.com has been fully federating with ActivityPub for a while. I cannot find any announcements by Loforo that they started with federation, and it seems like it has been active for a while. This in itself makes it intriguing; my assumption has always been so far that if platforms join the fediverse, that they will make it into a news story, and Loforo seems to prove that assumption wrong.
Stefan Bohacek proposes that fediverse admins disable images on World Sight Day so that only alt-text shows up.
Martin Holland has been keeping track of media accounts on the fediverse. This data set has now been expanded to include media accounts on Threads that have federation enabled.
Castopod’s latest feature allows you to display the podcasts’ transcript directly on the episode page.
EchoFeed is an interesting blend of RSS and the fediverse, allowing you to easily republish RSS/Atom feeds on to the fediverse and other places.
The weekly overview of all fediverse server and client updates.
Evan Prodromou tries out TikTok Notes, and writes about how it should integrate with ActivityPub.
PeerTube has started a newsletter, and the first edition can be found here.
That’s all for this week. If you want more, you can subscribe to my fediverse account or to the mailing list below:
oraz oferuje własną infrastrukturę dla NoEvil.pl, WriteFreely.pl, Kbin.social, FOSSGralnia, Polesie.Pol.social, TePeWu.pl, SVMetaSearch, CesarstwoKwadratowe, OZZIP, SKK, Plony.org, Parasol.coop, KO-OP.pl i wielu innym projektom,
Tbh I think the #Threadiverse like #Lemmy and #kbin would make a lot more sense if they were simply frontends and perhaps a backend too but just for the forums themselves. IOW, no accounts live in Lemmy or kbin, all users post from their preferred #fediverse account instead.
Sure you can already technically do that from your #Mastodon or #Misskey or whatever fedi you're in, but that means using whatever app you're on right now, which almost certainly means it's not a #linkaggregator UI. Not ideal at all.
If I had any good programming skills I'd make it so that the link aggregator is merely a client that uses the Mastodon (with #Pleroma extensions too) and Misskey APIs, treat (almost) all #ActivityPub actors as their own forums or subs, and each post would be a boost from said actor. Users authenticate from their preferred fedi account. Voting would be tallied by few special actors, which internally receive votes via direct messages (the app will make this transparent, but this also means you can technically vote without the app if you know the exact command), which will effectively make votes secret to non-admins like in #Reddit. Users can also choose which vote counters they want to rely from.
This would make the fediverse-powered link aggregator very flexible and minimal, imo. It may look janky but that's the general idea I have. :seija_coffee:
Wer von den #neuhier, aber auch gerne mal die #althier über den Tellerrand von #Mastodon blicken möchte, kann sich gerne die Artikelserie über das #Fediverse von @gnulinux ansehen. Dort erfährt man wirklich einiges über das Fediverse und deren vielfältigen Möglichkeiten. Eine wirklich sehr gelungene Möglichkeit, den eigenen Horizont zu erweitern.
it's been a long time since i have dropped a post > the bad news from palestine were too much ...
farhad's post truly moves me - i mean: let's not forget - for children, everything is a first time, and therefore, life is much harder for children than for grown up adults > that's why children should experience compassion, and they must not suffer from cruelties of any kind
this one thing > the other thing is: good people make yourself better
that does not mean to do everything right or having success all the time (succeeding is rare, failing is the norm) > it's about good intentions, being responsive to criticism, interacting in good faith
damn i can't see anything like that atm in palestine and israel ...
but i can still see it in the fediverse > i keep reading your posts - mostly on kbin.social whose community has grown on me > peeps at kbin ever so surprise me with their openness, accompanied by the absence of cynicism > i still keep learning from them, especially in terms of moderation
that said, i am still here, but i focus more on taking care of communities than posting myself > it remains to be seen whether i return to posting again
First thing’s first I want to establish we are not going to do anything to Burggit as it stands, we have no intentions of retiring the lemmy Burggit. Want to make that entirely clear. What we are talking about here would be As well as the lemmy Burggit....
My new website based on the Kbin fork, Mbin by the creator @melroy , an alternative to reddit. Not sure if it's set up right, hope the S3 is working and syncing, had troubles with broken images at the beginning.
I went to login to my mbin (previously kbin) account today for the first time in a few weeks, and I was greeted with an image that indicates the assets of teacup.social had been seized. teacup.social...
I'm still at the point where I'm not sure what to make, but already wishing there was a way to have a color attribute (and material set up to use it+higher roughness) for newly added objects....
I haven’t found a good alternative to Reddit. I was all in for kbin first but have since pivoted to Lemmy and I’ll be damned if I feel comfortable commenting on anything.
Is it just me or is there a high level of snark and pretentiousness?
That feeling you get after you are caught telling a little white lie over nothing but instead of coming out with the simple truth you double down & it was accepted and you finally feel relief. (c.tenor.com)
Kbin gives you 255 characters in the title. Come on lemmy world give us at least 5000.
The future of kbin.earth... (kbin.earth)
This post doesn't directly affect kbin.social users, but it is relevant. It discusses some of the potential pros/cons of Kbin and Mbin, and also the direction the kbin.earth server is heading.
OC KES 4.1.0: Improving the signal to noise ratio by blocking unsolicited ads
The blurb below is excerpted verbatim from the release notes. For the full release notes, see here....
The future of kbin.earth... (kbin.earth)
Hello kbin.earth users,...
reddit is over for me
for a while now i've been looking for alternatives to reddit, because for me it's over. i've been using telegram, scored, kbin and chat-to.dev i think they're the best alternatives to look for good communities on the internet.
Kbin support? (lemmy.world)
Hello,...
[Community Vote] What would you like us to focus on?
First thing’s first I want to establish we are not going to do anything to Burggit as it stands, we have no intentions of retiring the lemmy Burggit. Want to make that entirely clear. What we are talking about here would be As well as the lemmy Burggit....
Temporarily blocking activities from kbin.social
What’s the Problem?...
Teacup.social siezed by German Officials?
I went to login to my mbin (previously kbin) account today for the first time in a few weeks, and I was greeted with an image that indicates the assets of teacup.social had been seized. teacup.social...
OC vertex color banana and peel
I'm still at the point where I'm not sure what to make, but already wishing there was a way to have a color attribute (and material set up to use it+higher roughness) for newly added objects....