Wasn’t sure where to ask this but figured people here host their own rss platforms. I just started with miniflux. Between that and reeder it makes RSS nice and easy....
This is fantastic. Is there any way kbin.cafe could be included in the list of includes? It's a top-8 server and it'd be super nice if it "just worked".
50 TB on a network attached storage appliance across 8 drives, probably 200-400 GB across two laptop internal drives, and 500 GB or so of games on a Framework expansion card.
I may have a problem. Something something r/datahoarder something something.
I wrote the first line of code for /kbin on January 14, 2021. Around this time, I started working remotely and decided that the time I used to spend commuting to the office would be devoted to /kbin. Throughout this entire period, /kbin has been a hobby project that I developed in my free time. It was also when Lemmy started...
Are there any plans to create a more friendly website that highlights instances based on certain traits (i.e. country-specific instances; general-purpose instances; hobby/interest-specific instances)? Right now discoverability seems limited to the Fediverse Observer and FediDB, which shows /kbin instances by user activity.
Back in the day I used Firefox's built-in Live Bookmarks for all my RSS; I still miss it, but Brief is objectively better. People always seem surprised when I tell them that RSS readers can be embedded in the browser and not just dedicated websites/apps....
Over reliance on algorithms has degraded the user experience to the point that the average user is drowning in ragebait and extremist politics, because they drive up engagement. Just like a toddler, algorithms don’t discriminate between good and bad attention, so everything that gets clicks is thrust forward. Now, you could...
Shameless plug: I made a magazine, @rss, for RSS. It has approximately zero content right now but I'd love for people to start using it to exchange ideas, comments, and questions about feeds.
I didn't care about any of this (my off the shelf Router used .local) and then I started selfhosting more and using pFsense as a router OS. It defaulted to using home.arpa, which was so objectionable that I spent time looking into RFC 6762 and promptly reverted to .lan forever.
The official choices were: .intranet, .internal, .home, .lan, .corp, and .private. LAN was the shortest and most applicable. Choice made.
Little known trick--or perhaps everyone knows it and is quietly laughing behind my back--with Chromium browsers and Firefox (and maybe Safari, I'm not sure), you can add a slash to the end of an address and it will bypass the search.
So, for example, my router on the LAN goes by the hostname "pfsense". I can then type pfsense.lan/ into my address bar and it will bring me to the web UI, no HTTP/s needed.
It would be lovely if posts had a unique ID (UUID of some sort) that was shared between instances. That way, rather than using the thread ID, a unique ID is used that points at that particular thread, comment, or microblog. But alas, this doesn't exist, and we're here.
I host the following off of the top of my head, in no particular order. Some are hosted at home on a combination of a Raspberry Pi 4 and a Synology DS1821+ NAS, some are hosted on a dedicated server:
Bitwarden
GitLab
Pi-hole
Miniflux
Previously I used NginxProxyManager, now I just use Caddy
I also run PFSense at home for my router, on a Protectli Vault, if that counts as self-hosting. Seems more like sysadmin, but there you go. I use Uptimerobot to monitor everything and create sleek public status pages.
I use Vaultwarden in Docker, which is a light-weight Rust implementation of the Bitwarden server. You can just point any of the apps or browser extensions to your server at login and it works seamlessly. The oficial Bitwarden Server is also available, but when last I used it, it was much more resource intensive and had a number of docker containers as dependencies instead of the single container for Vaultwarden.
For UniFi, I use a docker image--currently, I'm using this one.
One of the main instances of Lemmy (lemmy.ml) is blocking 'kbinbot' user agent requests on their instance. Basically, they are blocking kbin instances. This is not a bug, but on purpose....
The silence from Lemmy developers on this is damning. If this was an accident (i.e. lumping "kbinbot" in with a blanket block of other user agents), it would have been a two second fix. Even more damning is that common agents that are being used for bot attacks, as discussed in the Lemmy matrix, are not blocked. For example:
Most Scifi fans I have ran into can pretty quickly rank the four stars –BattleSTAR Galactica, STAR Trek, STARgate, and STAR wars, but what lesser-known or less-prestigious shows hold a special place in your heart?...
Hello everyone. I’m glad to see an alternative to the subreddit. Unless my settings are somehow wrong, I believe this is the first post here. I don’t play muds all that often as I’ve been busy doing other things, but one of these days I’ll hop back in and get it figured out, starting with mudlet. (Heh, I’ve been saying...
Got suspended for criticising spez. So now I'm spending my time here and have already setup communities for !pathfinder2e and !talesfromretail. Good riddance to Reddit.
What discontinued feature do you miss from phones or other technologies?
For me its the ‘Knock Code’ that LG had on their phones (I really wish LG still made at least the V series phones)...
RSS feeds
Wasn’t sure where to ask this but figured people here host their own rss platforms. I just started with miniflux. Between that and reeder it makes RSS nice and easy....
What is your internet service plan?
How much do you pay? How fast are your your real world speeds? Where are you located?
OC KES 2.0.0: improved cross-platform compatibility, more stable, many new features
Original 1.0.0 release post here...
How much "data" do you personally have?
Data as in information (photos, contacts, messages, etc…), not your mobile internet allowance....
did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?
im 20 for reference. ever since i was a kid, up until hs, we were forced every morning to stand, look at the flag and hold our hearts and say:...
/kbin project management costs, financing, future plans
I wrote the first line of code for /kbin on January 14, 2021. Around this time, I started working remotely and decided that the time I used to spend commuting to the office would be devoted to /kbin. Throughout this entire period, /kbin has been a hobby project that I developed in my free time. It was also when Lemmy started...
My favorite RSS reader: Brief for Firefox (addons.mozilla.org)
Back in the day I used Firefox's built-in Live Bookmarks for all my RSS; I still miss it, but Brief is objectively better. People always seem surprised when I tell them that RSS readers can be embedded in the browser and not just dedicated websites/apps....
YSK: Use RSS feeds to curate your online experience
Over reliance on algorithms has degraded the user experience to the point that the average user is drowning in ragebait and extremist politics, because they drive up engagement. Just like a toddler, algorithms don’t discriminate between good and bad attention, so everything that gets clicks is thrust forward. Now, you could...
What hostname do you use for server? home.box or home.local?
There are many DNS names options. Which one do you use?
Is lemmy.ml working with kbin again?
Just saw a few new lemmy.ml posts on my front page from lemmy.ml users.
How do I view a post made on one instance from my instance? (kbin.cafe)
I’m on kbin.cafe. Let’s use the top post of kbinMeta as an example....
What are you self-hosting? (beehaw.org)
Thinking of self-hosting some basic tools; SearxNG, Bitwarden, Lemmy....
TIL that Lemmy.ml is actively blocking user-agent string kbin (kbin.melroy.org)
One of the main instances of Lemmy (lemmy.ml) is blocking 'kbinbot' user agent requests on their instance. Basically, they are blocking kbin instances. This is not a bug, but on purpose....
Save Star Trek Prodigy Petition Hits 20k Signatures (www.change.org)
Save Star Trek Prodigy!
What's your most-loved non-star movie/show?
Most Scifi fans I have ran into can pretty quickly rank the four stars –BattleSTAR Galactica, STAR Trek, STARgate, and STAR wars, but what lesser-known or less-prestigious shows hold a special place in your heart?...
Greetings new MUD community!
Hello everyone. I’m glad to see an alternative to the subreddit. Unless my settings are somehow wrong, I believe this is the first post here. I don’t play muds all that often as I’ve been busy doing other things, but one of these days I’ll hop back in and get it figured out, starting with mudlet. (Heh, I’ve been saying...
KES - kbin enhancement script (greasyfork.org)
Note: This is not a script I created, it was created by SirPsychoMantis on GreasyFork...
Tracking Lemmy/Kbin Mobile Clients (docs.google.com)
Google Sheet traking Lemmy & Kbin mobile clients. Anyone w/ the link can edit.
After being suspended for criticising Reddit's God King, I've come to Lemmy.
Got suspended for criticising spez. So now I'm spending my time here and have already setup communities for !pathfinder2e and !talesfromretail. Good riddance to Reddit.